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10 N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President’s Letter by Pat Boone, President

14 To The Point by Caren Cowan

20 N.M. CowBelles’ Jingle Jangle 44 News Update 46 Aggie Notes Jerry Hawkes, CES AnSc & Natural Resources Department Head

52 N.M. Federal Lands Council News by Frank DuBois

64 New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers by Don Bullis

66 On The Edge of Common Sense by Baxter Black

77 New Mexico Beef Council Bullhorn 90 Real Estate Guide 96 Home Spun by Jim Olson

99 Seedstock Guide 103 Market Place 112 View from the Backside by Barry Denton

124 Riding Herd by Lee Pitts

127 In Memoriam 129 Ad Index

FEATURES 29 Tucumcari Bull Test Sale 32 New Mexico Angus & Hereford Bull & Heifer Sale

39 Retaining Ownership of Beefmaster Feeder Cattle by Bill Pendergrass, Beefmaster Breeders United

48 Longhorns on the Land by Sharon Niederman

54 Preventing Disease Via Nutrition 56 Could We Breed a More Ramblin’ Cow? 58 Federal Agencies: How wild horses triggered revival of archaic workforce rule by George Cahlink, E&E News

68 In Search of Income by Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NMSU Extension Service

70 Wild Horse Border Patrol by Heather Somerville, widerimage.reuters.com

72 Linebreeding Created Line 1 Herefords by Heather Smith Thomas

79 Demand for Lean Beef Adds Premium to Prices for Lean, Healthy Market Cows by Gene Johnson, www.agriculture.com

80 Buying a Bull: The Consumer’s Homework by Stephanie Lastovica for Progressive Cattleman

85 Hawkes Wins Wetland Case on Remand from the U.S. Supreme Court by Reed Hopper, Pacific Legal Council

105 Does Bull Selection Affect Your Ranch’s Overall Sustainability by Bryan Weech, BEEF magazine

108 Feed Value Calculator by SDSU Extension Service

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Pat Boone NMCGA President

Dear neighbors & fellow cattle producers, Pat Boone President Elida Tom Sidwell President-Elect Quay

Jack Chatfield Vice President at Large Mosquero Dustin Johnson NW Vice President Farmington Blair Clavel NE Vice President Roy Jeff Bilberry SE Vice President Elida Randell Major SW Vice President Magdalena Shacey Sullivan Secretary/Treasurer Albuquerque Jose J. Varela Lopéz Past President La Cieneguilla Rex Wilson Past President Ancho

017 has started out just like 2016 ended—busy ! Our heifers started with the New Year, and we are about 75 percent done. Getting along pretty good for the most part, but having to pull one or two out of every 10, just enough to keep us paying attention. Our cows are beginning to spit them out so we are well on our way. Before we know it, spring works will be here. I always say fall is my favorite time of year but spring is a close second. I love branding and the work that goes with them. We have great neighbors to trade work with. Hope everyone has a great spring! The Legislature has been going a couple of weeks. I have not been up yet, but our president-elect Tom Sidwell, as well as Caren, Michelle and Jessica, have been there from the get-go. Our ag group is meeting, and I know working hard on issues that affect us and our industry. When you see these folks, give them a handshake or a hug and tell them how much you appreciate the work they do. This 60-day session will seem a lot longer before it’s over. I know our legislators are scrambling to find funding for everything and make a budget. One thing I did hear they did was sweep the accounts of all state agencies, presumably to re-distribute said funds in a manner more suited to their thinking. I’m not sure if I agree with the tactic. The Brand Board, for example, has funds in their accounts that are generated from livestock inspections and fees from recording and re-recording of brands, and were not appropriated to them by the state. I guess we will see what happens as time passes. Our legislative board meeting is February 20 and 21 at the Hotel Santa Fe. If you haven’t registered yet, there is still plenty of time to do so. Just call or email the office and they will fix you up. Be sure to make the calls asked for in the Calls-to-Action Caren sends out. We need to flood their offices with calls and let them know how we feel about the bills in our favor, and especially those that will create a hardship for us if passed into law. We appreciate those who take time to come to Santa Fe and sit in on committees and testify if needed. Also, we appreciate the bill readers who take time out of their busy lives to review and study bills, then let us know what effect they might have on us. Our new President has hit the ground running, and agree with him or not, he is doing the things he said he would. The next few months should be very interesting, to say the least. Change, for sure, is on the way. Our prayers are with the USA, and we pray that it will continue to be the greatest country on earth, the flagship of the entire world. God bless America! Until next time, may your horses stay sound for the work to be done.

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TO THE POINT by Caren Cowan, Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association

Take a deep seat and far-way look… and pull out your checkbook.

he nation elected a president that However, that’s not the issue most folks in vowed to make a change in the direc- “middle America” are concerned about. The tion of our country. The nation did the concerns here are jobs, the ability to mainsame thing eight years ago when the tain healthy communities, families, and yes, mantra was hope and change. Under that the environment. Unfortunately, the people president the changes were incremental, who live on and care for the land and all of but devastating for many. its fruits have not been considered as real, Good, bad or indifferent, President necessary and responsible people. Trump is wasting no time to make the There is no more stark example of this changes he promised. The response from lack of understanding and compassion the opposition is nothing short of incredi- than the Mexican wolf program. How ble. People are amassing and marching would these marchers who are taking the across the country, including New Mexico, streets regularly feel if the federal governto oppose Trump’s actions. Unfortunately ment turned wolves loose in the middle of it appears that they are gathering in oppo- their march? Yet it is highly likely that many sition to Trump without any understanding of these folks are the same ones who insist of what he may or may not be doing. that our pets and livestock, and the mental Women marched in large numbers in health of our children and families have no January…many just because they perceive value. that Trump hates women. Seriously? As we have expressed in the past, actions

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have consequences. We have what may be two generations of people that have never learned that lesson. It is worth noting that many in the U.S. Senate are much older than that and they can’t deal with reality either. It is disappointing that New Mexico’s Senators are not more supportive of the entire state, electing instead to focus on the naysayers who, from this writer’s perspective, may worship the land but don’t often, if ever, put their blood sweat and tears on it. I participated in a telephone town hall meeting in late January with one of these senators… or rather I listened. To participate, any questions had to be passed through screeners who determined what questions were posed. There were supposedly some 2,000 people who registered for the call and 1,300 who actually called in or

were called in. Based on the moderator’s comments, that number didn’t stay on the entire call. There was no conversation about people on that call, rather favoring the need to protect the air, land and water from the Trump Administration. It is baffling that many don’t get the connection between the air, land and water and the people who live and work on the land.

Now for that checkbook

“So, if the new President tries to roll back or replace regulations, he will be sued. If he tries to undo the last President’s midnight National Monument designations, he will be sued. If he looks cross-eyed at the snowflakes currently parading about the Capitol in strange costumes chanting for whatever

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According to Pacific Legal Foundation blogger James Burling, “the liberal left and the environmental industry have been on a fund-raising orgy that makes the feeding frenzy in Shark Week look like a Sunday school picnic. For them, this has been better than the ozone hole, species destruction, toxic air pollution and global warming rolled into one. Just visit their websites and learn how you too can donate your last dollar to defeat “not my President” when he tries to destroy the last vestige of nature and the environment by building new coal-fired power plants in every orphanage and critical habitat in the world. The left is promising to lawyer up and sue the President for every breath he takes.

may be able to manage the forests rather than letting them burn, destroying land, wildlife and watersheds.

Filling the swamp In December I had the opportunity to visit the Florida Everglades complete with

So, if the new President tries to roll back or replace regulations, he will be sued. If he tries to undo the last President’s midnight

National Monument designations, he will be sued. If he looks crosseyed at the snowflakes currently parading about the Capitol in strange costumes chanting for whatever it is they’re chanting for, he’ll be sued.”

it is they’re chanting for, he’ll be sued.” The working people’s community has spent millions of dollars trying to protect themselves from the federal government and radical environmentalists in court. Maybe that worm is turning but there remains a need to protect the feds when they come up with more reasonable regulations. On the bright side, maybe the lands will receive better care in the coming years. We

an airboat ride and alligator sightings. While their appeared to be “trails” the boats followed, I would hate to be lost out in the vast area of tall grasses. We had a great airboat pilot who was extremely knowledgeable on the glades and their history. He told of how the swamps were drained early in the last century to provide a place for agriculture to thrive in an extremely poor state. He proudly pointed out that because Florida

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has been prospering for the past few decades largely due to tourism, that agriculture has been eliminated in the area and the swamp is refilled. Peachy… but what will they eat? It never ceases to amaze me how people think that agriculture is a disposable, maybe even a deplorable, commodity. What will they eat? I recently read somewhere that one solution to water shortages is to fallow land in favor of other needs like electricity. What good is power without food? It becomes ever more clear that Americans are going to have to get hungry before they recognize the value agriculture provides them.

Fallowing The Circus… Then What It was with great sadness that we learned that the Ringling Brothers Circus is making its final tour. This is a direct result of the animal rights/environmentalist movement. Make no mistake, they are one in the same. The New York Times writes “…there are fewer people around who are captivated by lion tamers and wire walkers. Costs are rising — Ringling’s

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two troupes, known as the Blue Unit and the Red Unit, rumble from city to city on mile-long trains. And ticket sales are flagging. Opposition from animal rights groups led to the erasure of the show’s signature elephants last year. “Given those challenges, Ringling will play four more months, including a run in Brooklyn starting in late February. It will hold its final performance on May 21 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., on Long Island, before lapsing into memory.” Following the closing of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, could America’s zoos soon face a similar fate asks insideedition.com PETA activist Ashley Byrne says the closure of “The Greatest Show on Earth” is just the start. She cited the notorious 2016 incident at the Cincinnati Zoo, where Harambe the gorilla was shot after a child fell into his compound, as an example of animals suffering in zoos. “Animals deserve better. They deserve better than to be put on display for enter-

tainment,” she told Inside Edition. “Even in zoos, animals are being deprived of everything that is natural and important to them.”

They shoot horses don’t they? Meanwhile back in New Mexico those folks who think animals deserve better are working to prevent horses from being humanely euthanized after going through an auction ring. This may be the Chinese year of the rooster, but in the 2017 New Mexico Legislature, it may well become the year of the horse. The New Mexico Cattle Grower’s Association is advancing Senate Bill 126 to make clear the definition of livestock. The bill became necessary due to recent court cases that have blurred that definition. What seemed to be a fairly simple measure to provide clear direction to the New Mexico Livestock Board to protect public health and safety as well as private property rights has been a lightning rod for those who looking for a platform for “wild horses.” Just prior to the bill’s first hearing a concern was raised about how SB 126 might impact “wild horses” as defined by the federal Wild Horse & Burro Act and the New

Mexico Wild Horse Act (77-18-5). The bill ney” for its’ comments and never contacted Federal Grazing Fee Drops was pulled, negotiations were held and a the NMCGA about the bill. Only after a The Federal grazing fee for U.S. Forest committee substitute was developed citing contact from NMCGA did the story change Service and Bureau of Land Management both of those laws. slightly, still promoting facts not in for 2017 will be $1.87 per animal unit month That is not to say that the Animal Protec- evidence. (AUM) for public lands administered by the tion Voters of New Mexico (APVNM) didn’t That story morphed into a Facebook Bureau of Land Management and $1.87 per try to broad expand SB 126 and amend post claiming that SB 126 is a “Wild Horse head month (HM) for lands managed by the 77-18-5. Given that SB 126 is a bill about KILL BILL.” The post goes on to state U.S. Forest Service. The 2016 public land definitions, we held our ground and limited “Senator Pat Woods (who served for many grazing fee was $2.11. the measure to definitions. years as a N.M. Farm & Livestock Bureau The newly calculated grazing fee, deterOne of APVNM’s desired changes in State Board member), and the Attorney mined by a congressional formula and 77-18-5 extended to the elimination of the General are trying to change the law mid- effective on March 1, applies to nearly Livestock Board’s ability to sell unwanted stream to enable wild horses to be 18,000 grazing permits and leases adminisferal horses via auction. Their theory is that considered livestock and disenfranchise the tered by the BLM and nearly 6,500 permits horses sold through auction go to people and the judicial branch of gover- administered by the Forest Service. slaughter. ment” (aka as government). The formula used for calculating the Instead APVNM wants the law to read I know… I don’t live in a glass house and grazing fee, which was established by Conthat if the Livestock Board holds horses for make my own typos… just too good to gress in the 1978 Public Rangelands the required five (5) days, requesting bids resist. Improvement Act, has continued under a for the animals, that the horses must be The post goes on, but you get the gist. presidential Executive Order issued in 1986. euthanized. Funny how Facebook kicked NMCGA off Under that order, the grazing fee cannot fall Aided and abetted by fake news in the their friend page, but allows this mis-infor- below $1.35 per AUM, and any increase or Ruidoso News, there appears to be a mation and much more to remain. decrease cannot exceed 25 percent of the firestorm of folks claiming that SB 126 is By the time you read this, at least the first previous year’s level. aimed at “redefined (ing) livestock in New hurdle for SB 126 will have passed. Stay Outta time! Mexico, in effect, eliminating the classifica- tuned for updates. tion of “wild” horses.” While the initial Thanks to the bill readers and for Ruidoso News story has been revised, the responding to our Calls To Action! YOU are writer initially relied on an unnamed “attormaking a difference.

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Happy New Year!

s I sit and start working on my new planner for the year the pages are already filling up with appointments and activities. I sit back and think how did my parents do it all? Life seemed less hectic and we didn’t have the many conveniences back then as we do now. Not all conveniences are such great choices. Yes, I am not saying I’m perfect, and much of my day revolves around technology because of work, but I do try to take the time out of our busy schedules to have family time — no devices during dinner! It’s our time to discuss and visit and talk about how our day has gone, what was something exciting we learned at school, etc. I feel that this is very important, and yes there are times when we balk at this because our friends don’t have to, or we have too much to do! As we move into the future the pace of

daily living becomes apparently more busy; there seems to be not enough hours in the day to get one’s daily obligations accomplished. Many of us with moms working in town, activities going later into the evening, and still trying to hold onto the building blocks that were instilled upon us and trying to pass that onto our children. Moving Forward and maintaining a balance of life on the ranch, family time, school and work. With this in mind just remember . . . Sometimes the smallest steps in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step. From our Ranch to Yours, Tana

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Mesilla Valley CowBelles met for lunch at Pastaggio’s in December. Six members and one guest attended (Gretchen Lindsay, Mary Esther Grider, Mary Sanchez, Judy Glover, Kathy Terranova, Candy Cox, with Vicki Ligon (guest)). Great conversation and a wonderful time was had by all who attended. A tour of the F&A Cheese Plant is tentatively scheduled for March (w/Chamiza CowBelles), hosted by Kathy Terranova. Janet sent out email reminder dues are due for 2017. At next meeting, we will have more

Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale — March 20, 2017 — Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Co., Inc (Belen) Registered Angus Bulls Available at the Ranch

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information for cheese plant tour plus calendar of events for the year. Submitted by Gretchen Lindsay Chamiza Cowbelles Meeting on January 5, 2017 was called to order at 12:05 p.m. by President Nancy Phelps in Johnny B’s Restaurant in TorC with 12 members present. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved. The treasurer’s report was approved as presented. Nancy gave a review of the NMCB annual meeting she attended in Albuquerque in December. The two brand-throws that the local donated for the silent auction raised approximately $60 each. Proceeds from this auction support the Stock growers’ representatives to attend the legislative sessions in Santa Fe. She also reported that there will be training concerning Ag in the Classroom sometime in February. Nancy was voted in as the State Cowbelles’ Secretary for the upcoming year. Congratulations, Nancy! This position will require some travel and Sioux suggested local pay Nancy’s expenses. However, Nancy discouraged any action at this time saying it will depend on where she travels and the cost of registrations. Scholarship Committee: continued on page 22 >>

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

For B&H Herefords 2nd Annual Bull Sale! March 16, 2017

Roswell Livestock Auction — Roswell, N.M. • 12:30 p.m. • Auctioneer — Dustin Layton

SELLING 28 Spring 2016 Yearling Bulls, 7 Spring 2015 2-Year-Old Bulls, 50 Spring 2016 yearling commercial Hereford heifers

F Vision 908

JCS 240 Sensation 4598

JCS Currency 3474 ET UPS Domino 5216

• Sire of many of the dams and grandams of the sale bulls. He is a strong influence in our herd.

Bulls Sired By: F Vision 908, JCS Currency 3474 ET, BH Yankee 3023, JCS 240 Sensation 4598

Bulls, Females and Semen for Sale Cow Herd located at Pinon, New Mexico

B&H Herefords Registered Herefords Phil Harvey Jr. P.O. Box 40 • Mesilla, NM 88046 575-524-9316 • Cell 575-644-6925 philharveyjr@comcast.net • www.bhherefords.com

Jim Bob Burnett 205 E. Cottonwood Rd. Lake Arthur, NM 88253 Cell 575-365-8291 • jbb@pvtnetworks.net

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Angus, Effici ent, Profita High Quality ble, Many Low B irth Weight C alving Ease Bulls A vailable

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Registered Replacement Heifer Calves Available Call Bob, Kay, or Mike Anderson A Lazy 6 Angus at Blanco Canyon, HCR 72, Box 10, Ribera, NM 87560

Headquarters: 575/421-1809 Cells: 505/690-1191 • 505/660-2909 Email: alazy6ranch@yahoo.com

“They are worth more if they have Black Angus influence.”

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The following people have expressed an interest in being included on the scholarship committee: Krystie Wear (chairman), Nancy, Gloria, Anita, Betty, and Kelikay. Nancy feels the criteria should be based on a point system. Hopefully, this committee will meet soon and have definite rules to present at next meeting. Nancy passed around her cell phone to show a picture of the Cowbelles’ mural which has been painted on the concession stand at the Louis Armijo Sports Complex. Everyone agreed there needs to be a border added because the mural background is the same color as the building. Sherry will check into this to find out if adding a border will result in an additional charge. NEW BUSINESS: The Pat Nowlin scholarship was discussed. Each local can submit one name for consideration. Because we haven’t donated to this worthy cause, the group decided to give $500. Now that Nancy is not only local president but she is also the new State Cowbelles’ Secretary, she feels the need to obtain business cards which local decided was also necessary. A decision was made to donate $100 to the American Legion for the purpose of purchasing beef jerky to send to the troops; an annual event. Jodell also announced that the total money donated by individual Cowbelles at the December meeting totaled $400 in addition to the non-perishable food items. She thanked everyone. Lisa won the door prize of free lunch. Meeting adjourned. Submitted Cathy Pierce Powderhorn Cattlewomen met at the DeBaca County Extension Office for the January meeting. The 2017 officers were the hostesses and 16 members and one guest were in attendance. Kelsey McCollum, President, presided over the meeting and announced the several Committees and members who will serve for this year. Several courtesy cards were sent to members who are homebound and/or dealing with illness. Members discussed plans and program topics for the year. A memorial contribution in honor of Mark McCollum was sent to the McCollum Scholarship Fund. Mark was a true friend and strong advocate for promoting beef and the youth in the community. The Cattlewomen will be hosting the District meeting on Saturday, March 18 , and discussion regarding plans commenced. The next meeting will be February 14. Submitted by Joan Key The regular monthly meeting of the Chuckwagon CowBelles was held on

January 10, 2017 at the Mountainair Christian Center. President Lyn Greene called the meeting to Order at 10:30am. The CowBelle Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, & CowBelle Creed was recited by all. Welcome Guests: Dixie Boyle, Lucille Reynolds. Seventeen members and guests attended this meeting. As there was no formal meeting held in December the minutes from the November 8th meeting were approved. Officer & Committee Reports: Treasurer report & Presentation of Bills (bill for Rada stock). Unfinished Business: Programs and hostesses for 2017 were submitted to Cookie. A few empty slots were noted and program ideas were requested. New Business: Carolyn Chance & Cindy Robison reported on the booth at Bosque Farms. Attendance and sales were low. Lyn Greene and Carolyn Chance reported on the annual meeting. Willa Stone of Corriente CowBelles was “CowBelle of the Year” and Otero CowBelles received both the membership award and volunteer award. The 2017 state officers were installed. Guest speaker was Max Wade from Galloping Grace Youth Ranch (GGYR). They have a great program for youth. There will be a charge for this program beginning this year. If you know of a youth that would benefit from this program, there is an opportunity to sponsor a kid. Lyn had been unable to find the notebooks for the handbook, but of course a younger member, Vera, was able to find them on-line so it was voted on to order eight books (packages of 4). After the visit to the Harvey House Museum’s Christmas lights, Sue Hawkins proposed to sponsor a western themed tree for 2017. The proposal was voted on and passed. Sue will head that committee. Program: Dixie Boyle – More

Low Birth weight Thickness, depth, length

fun and interesting stories! Her new book March 16, 2017; District VI & I Workshop in True Stories of Frontier Women is now Capitan hosted by Corriente – March 17, available. Potluck meal followed. Announce- 2017; (also Workshops in Santa Rosa, March ments: Next Meeting, February 14, will be 18 and Deming, March 24). Meeting held at Margaret McKinley’s house in Belen. adjourned. Welda Grider will give a program on “What little you need to know about Parliamen- New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to Jingle Jangle. Please tary Procedure”. Ag Fest – Santa Fe, February send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, 7, 2017; Beef Ambassador applications due Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 on-line by March 1; Ag Feed – Santa Fe, or email: janetwitte@msn.com the 14th of each

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Online Registration / Tentative Schedule / Accommodation Information: www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-agriculture-leadership-conference-tickets-29078826553 Sponsorships Available ranging from events and meal to scholarships: Support New Mexico women in agriculture by visiting www.nmflb.org/Article/WALC-Diamond-in-the-Rough Diamond in the Rough (DITR) Award: Nominate a deserving New Mexico woman by visiting www.nmflb.org/Article/WALC-Diamond-in-the-Rough

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

“Ladies Luck of the Draw” USO Fundraiser: This is another way of getting involved with WALC and showcasing your company or organization. See the details at www.nmflb.org/Article/WALC-Diamond-in-the-Rough

Raised Under New Mexico Range Conditions

Rapid Growth Efficiency - Rock Footed

RANCH ANGUS BULLS Angus Bulls Yearlings & 2-year-olds

Ernest & Ronda Thompson Mountainair, NM Ranch: 575-423-3313 Cell: 505-818-7284

Private Treaty Beginning March 3rd You might find bulls of equal quality, but you won’t find any better and you will definitely pay more 30 Years of Stacked Angus Genetics

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Mix Feed Rations from Mobile Device

he wireless Libra TMR from Central City Scale, Inc. eliminates the need for indicators, remote displays, thumb drives and printers. The TMR app delivers a smart and simple way to build and manage your rations, pens, and feed groups. Know the exact weight of ingredients going into the mixer and track what has been fed to each pen, providing useful information and features at your fingertips. With this new technology, cattle feeders and Dairy operations can have more precise control of their feed mixing, ingredients and rations. Central City Scale, Inc. of Central City, Nebraska is introducing the

new Libra TMR which is a feed and ration management system that is iPad-based and connected to load cells on the feed mixer using Bluetooth electronics. The operator enters the feed ingredient information into the app, along with rations with all the ingredients. Information is assigned to what ration gets fed to which pen and how many head are in each pen. This technology saves time and makes it simple to execute a ration and feed it properly. By entering the name of your feed group, Libra TMR will inform you how much weight volume of each ingredient is required for each ration you are mixing. More importantly, the system will also allow the operator to scale by dry matter. Using agrimatics’ cloud service (coming

soon), a nutritionist can also log in and remotely manage rations for their customers. The Libra TMR allows the feed mixer operator to use a smart phone or tablet as a full featured indicator. The number of remote displays are unlimited. The ability to set a custom timer for mixing between each ingredient or after all ingredients have been loaded helps with generating a Total Mixed Ration. Automatically adjust the batch size based on any loaded ingredient. Feeding schedules for different feed groups can be created increasing efficiency in your feeding operation. Being able to enter bunk readings in the system allows the operator to quickly adjust rations and feed amounts. The operator can input and adjust dry matter percentages for ingredients or record as fed.

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Sale Date March 10, 2017 Clayton, NM

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NM CowBelle’s Seek Youth Beef Ambassador Contestants

outh interested in pursuing the opportunity to become the next spokespersons for the beef industry and the New Mexico CowBelle organization are encouraged to complete entry forms for the 2017 New Mexico Beef Ambassador competition slated for Friday, March 31 in Las Cr u ce s . The contest will be held in conjunction with the State FFA Career Development Events held on the New Mexico State University Campus. The state level

contest is sponsored by the New Mexico prize to the first place senior, $350 to the CowBelle organization with additional second place senior and $150 to the top support from the New Mexico Beef junior age contestant. Council, the New Mexico Cattle Grower’s, Senior contestants range from ages as well as local CowBelle members and 18-20, while junior contestants must be ranchers. A three-member beef ambas- between the ages of 15 and 17. During sador team will be chosen to travel the state contest, each contestant will throughout the state to engage consum- present a 10-15 minute PowerPoint on ers and students by sharing factual the same topic — “Response to Coninformation regarding beef nutrition, sumer Myths About Beef ”. The food safety and positive stewardship presentation will then be followed by an practices via educational programs and interview with a panel of judges who will presentations, special events, and social determine the winners to be announced media avenues. Each of the team during the State FFA Awards Program at members will receive a monogrammed the NMSU Pan American Center. jacket and shirts, along with a $500 cash To receive an entry form, brochure & additional contest info contact the NM Beef Ambassador Chair, Shelly Hathorn or access the on-line form on the NM 2016 NM Beef Ambassador Team CowBelle website at (l to r)– Kellan www.newmexicocowbelles.org/ Bennett, Hope (1st beef-ambassador-program place senior); Case Spradly, CowBelles; Aubrey Brandenberger, Claunch (1st place junior); Kari Vallo, Acoma, (2nd place senior); Anita Hand & Tana Garnet, CowBelles.

Entry forms are due 3/1/2017 to Shelly Hathorn, NM Beef Ambassador Chair, San Juan County Extension Office, 213A South Oliver Drive, Aztec, NM 87410, 505/334-9496 (wk) or 575/447-7447 (cell), shporter@nmsu.edu

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Friday, April 7th

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50 YEARLING BULLS Herd Bulls & Range Bulls 50+ F1 BALDY REPLACEMENT FEMALES Sired by Copeland Bulls Presenting a rare opportunity to own possibly the Hereford breed’s best son of Churchill Sensation 028X!

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240 son purchased by ST Genetics in our 2016 Bull Sale

$300,000 half interest son of 240 sold in Barber’s Holiday Lights Sale.

PLEASE CONTACT THE RANCH OR THE SALE MANAGER FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REQUEST A SALE CATALOG! Established 1943

CLIFF & PAT COPELAND

575.403.8123 • cliff@copelandherefords.com 859 Romero Road, Nara Visa, NM 88430

MATT COPELAND

580.336.8284 • matt@copelandherefords.com 4381 Nara Visa Hwy., Nara Visa, NM 88430

CLIFFORD & BARBARA COPELAND ALYSSA FEE, Herdsman

731.499.3356

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Dustin N. Layton 405.464.2455 laytond@yahoo.com laytonauction.com

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Tucumcari Bull Test Sale March 11, 2017 — Private Treaty —

Reserve Grand Champion Angus Bull at Arizona National Livestock Show

Reserve Grand Champion Hereford at Arizona National Livestock Show

Contact Us! Glenda & Leslie Armstrong acornerstone@plateautel.net Kevin & Renee Grant – 575-355-6621 cornerstone@plateautel.net Justin & Kyra Monzingo – 575-914-5579 616 Pecan Dr. • Fort Sumner, NM 88119

Cornerstone Ranch

“With Christ Jesus as the Chief Cornerstone.” — Ephesians 2:20

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MILLER ~Angus~ QUALITY REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS CATTLE Dink & Mitzi Miller 575/478-2398 (H) • 575/760-9048 (C) 174 N.M. 236, Floyd, NM 88118 ~ USA

J-C Angus Ranch PERFORMANCE YOU CAN COUNT ON

AI Sires: 10X, Resistol Tucumcari Feed Efficiency Test Sale - Mar. 11, 2017 Black Angus Ready For Work Sale, Belen - Mar. 20, 2017 JOHN & CATHY HECKENDORN – REBECCA, SARAH, JOSHUA & CALEB 75-A Pueblo Rd. N., Moriarty, NM 87035 Home: 505/832-9364 – Cell.: 505/379-8212 Web: www.jcangus.com – Email: info@jcangus.com

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in the New Mexico Stockman. Call: 505/243-9515. With herds in several locations, we are able to test our genetics based on real world conditions.

We are working hard to earn & keep your business! Serving Texas and New Mexico

■ Tucumcari Bull Test Sale –March 11 Black Angus “Ready for Work” Bull Sale –March 20, Belen, NM AVAILABLE NOW 150 Bulls, 100 Bred Heifers

Roy Hartzog – 806-225-7230 cell • Trudy Hartzog – 806-470-2508 cell Ranch – 806-825-2711 • email arlo22@wtrt.net FEBRUARY 2017

BEFORE YOU BUY AN ANGUS BULL, ASK FOR THE PAPERS

When it comes to selecting your herd genetics, there are a lot of choices out there. Choosing the right bull can be complicated. Angus genetics offer a clear solution. But before you purchase that next Angus bull, make sure he’s registered. That registration paper opens the door to the true power of known Angus genetics – and the industry’s largest, most accurate genetic database and selection tools. With the registration paper, you’re buying generations of pedigrees, carefully measured performance data and selection tools. With the registration paper, you’re buying generations of pedigrees, carefuly measured performance data and genomic information. With the paper, you’re receiving a registered bull that comes with the industry’s most reliable, rapidly available EPDs to advance your cow herd. Without the paper, you’re just buying a bull. So next time you’re at a sale, make the most of your investment and ask for the registration paper. It’s how you know what you’re purchasing – and how you can achieve your full profit potential. That’s the power of a registration paper. That’s the power of a registered Angus bull

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helping you find ALL THE PIECES YOU NEED McCall Land and Cattle Co.

EXAR RESISTOL 3710B our lead herd sire

Spring 2017 Offering FEBRUARY 27

Okla Panhandle State Bull Test Sale, Goodwell, OK

MARCH 4

NM Angus Association Sale with GrowSafe results, Roswell, NM

MARCH 11

Tucumcari Bull Sale with GrowSafe results, Tucumcari, NM

APRIL 3

Cattlemen’s All Breed Sale, Belen, NM

Selling 8 service aged bulls, 4 bred heifers and 15 open heifers.

2016 McCall bulls indexed 1st, 2nd, 3rd for the entire 140 bulls tested.

Our bulls are sired by breeding leading Angus bulls. Private treaty bulls and bred heifers available February through June. If you’re looking for a balance of traits, let McCall Land and Cattle Co. help make all the pieces fit together.

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MCCALL LAND AND CATTLE CO. GOALS

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To grow cattle that are functional in western environment. We want to see great legs, feet and more bone than usual in Angus Cattle. We want more than usual thickness front to rear with a really thick butt. I want to see a lot of rib holding lots of middle and capacity with deep flanks. I want cattle that grow above average, the reason for testing & now efficiently. Cull the worst and keep the best after each testing season. Best when we achieve a 365 day calving interval on our cows. Don’t breed to just chase numbers on all EPDs, try to make balanced cattle. Bottom line, make cattle with lots of muscle, pleasing phenotype and that grow.

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THE THIRTEENTH NEW MEXICO ANGUS AND HEREFORD

< Bull and > Heifer Sale Saturday March 4 ,2017 ’ ’ ROSWELL LIVES TOCK AUCTION, ROSWELL, N.M. Sale time 12:30 p.m.

Bulls will be Graded & Tested For Fertility & Trich

* 140 BULLS *

100 REG. ANGUS • 40 REG. HEREFORD

Cattle available for viewing, Friday, March 3, 2017

* PLUS* a nice selection of Registered and Commercial Heifers Registered heifers at the New Mexico Angus March sale in Roswell are eligible for the New Mexico Bred Angus Show at the New Mexico State Fair

FOR CATALOG PLEASE CALL A MEMBER OF THE SALE COMMITTEE Candy Trujillo 480-208-1410 • Mark Larranaga 505-850-6684 • Claude Gion 505-220-0549 ANGUS CONSIGNORS: Brennand Ranch – 575-687-2185 Cimarron Angus –575-375-2972 CRT Angus Ranch – 480-208-1410 Diamond Seven Angus Ranch – 575-403-9910 Claude Gion – 505-220-0549 Mike Gion –505-235-8488 Jimbar Angus – 575-760-4779 LG Angus – 575-760-5534 M-Hat Angus – 505-203-9488 McCall Land & Cattle Co. – 505-379-4333 Miller Angus –575-760-9047 Mitchell Angus – 505-362-0927

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P Bar A Angus Cattle – 505-850-6684 Reyes Cattle Co. – 915-253-2883 Salazar Ranches – 505-929-0334 Slash 3C Ranch – 575-649-5268 Craig Westbrook – 575-973-0086

HEREFORD CONSIGNORS: Abercrombie Ranch – 575-403-8888 Corn Herefords – 575-622-3360 Cornerstone Ranch, Inc. – 575-914-5578 Bill King Ranch – 505-220-9909

Thank you for your past business & we look forward to seeing you at our

2017 Angus Bull & Heifer Sale

A Joint Venture of the New Mexico Angus Association & the New Mexico Hereford Association

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Mark or Percy Larranaga (505) 850-6684 or (505) 270-0753 SAV Angus Valley 1867

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Sitz Upward 307R x Twin Valley Precision E161 Calving Ease Outcross Sire with Lots of Power & Performance. UptoPrimetime is a Thick, Deep-Bodied, Heavy Muscled, & Perfect Disposition Bull.

Angus Valley represents everything we look for in an ideal breeding bull, both phenotypically and on paper. Widely admired and respected for his consistent calving ease and early gestation.

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MILLER ~Angus~

• SPRING PRIVATE TREATY • NEW MEXICO ANGUS & HEREFORD ASSOCIATION SALE Roswell – March 4, 2017 • MILLER-SANCHEZ BULL SALE Clayton – March 10, 2017 • TUCUMCARI FEED EFFICIENCY BULL TEST SALE – March 11, 2017 • ALL BREED BULL SALE Belen – Spring 2017 Dink & Mitzi Miller 575/478-2398 (H) • 575/760-9048 (C) 575 /760-9047 174 N.M. 236, Floyd, NM 88118 ~ USA

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The N.M. Hereford & Angus Sale Roswell – March 4 Two 2-Year-Old Bulls & Two Yearlings The Tucumcari Bull Test Sale Tucumcari – March 11 Two great young bulls

We also have a select few bulls for sale privately at the ranch. Please call us!

RANCHES MIKE and JENNIFER CORN • Home 575/653-4469 HCR 30, Box 1452 • Roswell, NM 88201

Stacy King 183 King Road, Stanley, NM 87056 505-220-7125

Please join us for the New Mexico Hereford & Angus Bull Sale March 4, 2017 at the Roswell Livestock Auction FEBRUARY 2017

JIMBAR NMAA Sale

Angus Cattle Available

March 4, 2017 Roswell, N.M.

JIM & BARBARA SMITH • 575-760-4779 P.O. BOX 397, MELROSE, NEW MEXICO 88124

NMBVM Certified in Pregnancy / Diagnosis & Artificial Insemination Reg. & Comm. Bulls, Replacement Heifers, & Bred Heifers

FOR SALE

Available by Private Treaty We now have Bulls & Heifers PAP tested @ 7,600 ft.

REG. BLACK ANGUS

CONSIGNING TO THE NMAA/NMHA SALE & TUCUMCARI FEED EFFICIENCY TEST Miguel Salazar, Española, NM Salazar_ranches@yahoo.com 505/929-0334 • 505/747-8858

WE HAVE CATTLE CONSIGNED in the NM ANGUS SALE – MARCH 4

We look forward to visiting with everyone. See you there! CAPITAN, NM 88316 • PO BOX 25

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Retaining Ownership of Beefmaster Feeder Cattle By Bill Pendergrass, Beefmaster Breeders United

eefmaster females have long been recognized as the industr y gold standard for productivit y and maternal excellence. However, many ranchers fail to recognize the feedyard and carcass attributes of Beefmaster sired steers. Roaring Springs Ranch of Frenchglen, Ore., has been utilizing Beefmaster bulls on their crossbred cow herd in the high desert country of eastern Oregon. The ranch’s main emphasis has been on replacement female production, but the steers they produce must also perform on the range and on the rail, as a part of their demanding Country Natural Beef Program. This beef program is one of the beef industry’s most respected branded beef product lines. With the first harvest group of Roaring Springs Ranch Beefmaster sired steers, it became evident that Beefmasters were way more than just a maternal breed. This is not a surprise, since the early 2000s several Beefmaster breeders have been involved with nationally-known branded beef programs, where collecting data and improving carcass value are keys to their success. The first turn of Roaring Springs Ranch Beefmaster sired steers posted the following impressive statistics shared in table #1. Based on industry grid marketing standards, 45 percent of the Beefmaster sired carcasses earned premiums based on quality grade, indicating their ability to marble. Additionally, another 40 percent earned yield grade premiums, which indicates the cattle were heavy muscled and lean in their body composition. By analyzing the average component carcass traits for the group, it is evident that these cattle were very consistent in their muscularity and marbling. These are the kind of cattle that earn premiums for the retained own-

ership or investment feeder, and satisfy the consumer’s demand for high quality beef. The Beefmaster breed is serious about improving performance and carcass merit. In May 2016, Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU) released Genomic-Enhanced EPDs to allow bull buyers to confidently select younger animals with greater accuracy values, therefore significantly improving the rate of genetic improvement for a wide variety of traits. In July 2016, BBU released the Beefmaster breed’s first selection indices: Terminal Index ($T) and Maternal Index ($M). For the first time

ever Beefmaster bull buyers have high accuracy selection tools to fold into their crossbreeding programs to maximize heterosis and profitability. While carcass traits and related carcass value is straight forward and easy to track, there is another area that is as important to profitability as carcass merit: feed efficiency. Beefmasters have a great reputation for being among the most efficient convertors in the beef industry. Over the years, several Beefmaster breeders have retained ownership of their genetics to track feedyard performance and carcass merit. In reviewing feedyard closeouts on a sample of the data submitted to BBU, the following observations were made from standard feedyard close out data, shown in table #2. As noted by the information in the table, performance and feed efficiency can go hand in hand. Given the number of feedyards in different environments and solid performance of Beefmaster genetics, it is obvious that Beefmasters excel in feed efficiency. Cost of gain is

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Beefmaster sired. Most cattle today are sold on grids, where cattle can earn premiums for higher quality and higher yielding carcasses. However, many ranchers overlook the fact that even grids are based on hot carcass weight. Cattle that have higher dressing percentages have a hot yield advantage in the plant bringing more pounds of carcass to the scale. It is not u n co m m o n f o r higher dressing Many ranchers overlook the fact that even cattle to gross more per carcass than grids are based on hot carcass weight. higher quality grading cattle. tages including a very strong immune Many feeders find Beefmasters an attracsystem, which results in fewer feedyard tive grid marketing option due to hot yield deaths and health related pulls in the feed- advantages provided by the Beefmaster yard. These attributes result in stronger bids body composition. Cattle must be able to from buyers who regularly run purchase dress, grade and yield in order to maximize breakeven calculations at lower death loss any grid, and Beefmaster sired steers check percentages when they know the calves are off all three. Profitability comes in many packages and smart operators are quick to find alternate routes to a desirable end point. While the industry generalizes profitability with high marbling carcasses, the truth is there are other data points that affect profitability more than just marbling. In today’s marketplace, ranchers must consider all of their options and chances are that efficiency and performance will impact the long term profitability of their operation more than marbling will. Beefmasters are a central part of a planned crossbreeding program that will help cattlemen balance carcass merit, efficiency, performance, ferR.D. and tility and maternal excellence. PEGGY CAMPBELL

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NMSU Range Science Professor Receives Fulbright Award to Australia

anchers in the western United States and in Australia face a major challenge: animal welfare on a substantial amount of rangeland. On vast rangeland, livestock is difficult and expensive to manage. But Derek Bailey, professor in the New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range Sciences, is working to find ways to help such ranchers better manage their livestock and improve animal welfare. His efforts include collaborating with researchers in Australia, where the rangeland is similar to that in New Mexico and other western states. Bailey will further his research at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton with the help of the prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship he was recently awarded. “On rangelands in New Mexico, in the western United States and in most of Australia, ranchers have extensive pastures on which they can’t see the livestock all the time,” Bailey said. “The cows have to free roam out in the range, so you can’t watch them; it’s not like a dairy where you see the cows every day. Because of that, you can’t always tell if the animals get sick or have trouble with parturition.” His Fulbright to Australia from early February to late June will allow him to work with Mark Trotter, associate professor of precision agriculture at Central Queensland University, and others to identify methods to track cattle and sheep on rangeland. Specifically, Bailey will be learning in more detail about a type of GPS tracking used to identify animal behaviors and to determine whether an animal needs assistance. “One of the cool things about going to Australia is that they’re very close to having real-time or near real-time tracking of livestock,” Bailey said. “We’re trying to use technology to see if we can identify behaviors that would be indicative of welfare issues. We’re hoping to be able to see that, with their movement data from GPS tracking and perhaps other sensors.” The GPS device would be affixed to a collar that would send a signal to a nearby tower, potentially up to 10 miles away from the animal. That data would be collected and transferred to the ranch headquarters. Ideally, the information would be sent via the internet to a smartphone application. Bailey’s and Trotter’s research efforts are complementary. Bailey has plenty of rangeland cattle grazing behavior experience as the director of NMSU’s 61,000-acre Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center located north of Las Cruces. In Australia, Trotter is knowledgeable in precision livestock agriculture, which is using technology to monitor cattle and sheep. There’s another part to Bailey’s visit. He’ll ask Australian researchers to help analyze spatial data he’s collected on the movement and behavior of cattle on rangeland. He hopes to find a way to help improve grazing distribution of livestock. Right now, too many animals forage near water. As a result, much of the forage areas on higher land or on hills goes untouched. “We’re trying to use genetic selection to improve grazing distribution to get cattle to graze up steeper hillsides to go further from water,” Bailey said. “Our ongoing research has been very encouraging so far, we just need to validate it. Our approach is to use

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genetic markers to predict where cattle will graze.” For example, DNA from a blood sample may show that a certain animal would be more likely to climb hills or travel farther. “When we go to Australia, it gives me a chance to help work with others to be able to analyze and make more sense of this huge amount of tracking data that we’re collecting,” he said. Bailey said he believes the combination of the real-time animal welfare tracking technology and the genetics of grazing distribution helped him receive the Fulbright scholarship. “I think we’re really onto some cutting-edge research,” he said. “It’s a combination of high-tech solutions for reallife ranch problems both in Australia and here.” Although this won’t be his first time traveling to Australia to collaborate with colleagues, this is the first time he’s been awarded a Fulbright. The mission of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission is to promote education and cultural exchange between Australia and the United States in order to enhance mutual understanding and strengthen relations between the two countries.

During his stay, Bailey will travel throughout the country representing the United States and will talk to other Fulbright scholars. He’ll attend a dinner with the Australian Parliament, where a poster for his research will be on display. He may even get to meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

“I’ll be able to talk about the research, about New Mexico State and about the State of New Mexico,” he said. “It’s all really science-driven, and we’re trying to do many things to help out ranchers in New Mexico and in the West.

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consciousness. “Today’s consumer is so aware of diet,” he says, explaining that in 1987, Texas A & M conducted a nutritional study comparing longhorn beef to commercial beef as well as other proteins. The study found that Longhorn beef has only half the calories but the same amount of protein, and it has less cholesterol than chicken. Even more promising, despite its big boned, skinny reputation and appearance, the Longhorn contains the same amount of meat as other breeds, only with less fat.

Brewer also finds the breed surprisingly resistant to disease. “I’ve never had to vaccinate for anything other than tetanus,” he says. And they are very easy to work with. “I have a 2,000 pound bull,” he says, “who is so gentle I’d trust a five year old to pet him. He is that sweet.” While the Longhorn is a rare and colorful enough sight that people pull over to the side of the road to take their picture, the breed is more common in places such as Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of New Mexico.

In New Mexico, herds, while not found in large numbers, are located in Artesia, Belen and Mountainair, as well as Stanley. When the breed was at its low point about a century ago, it was fostered by six families who built on specific traits in their breeding programs. Today, the TLBAA counts seven key families predominant in Longhorn breeding; however, Longhorns differ from

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and popularity of the miniature Texas Longhorn.

The miniature breed stands 40 inches tall and is tailored for smaller operations, even those as small as an acre which would like to have a couple of them on the property.”

ranch to ranch. For example, the Yates Longhorn is bigger-bodied but with smaller horns, while the Butler Longhorn has a smaller body with larger horns. The TLBAA is an organization made up of Texas Longhorn enthusiasts who’ve made it their life’s work to protect the cultural heritage, pedigree, research and breeding practices of the Texas Longhorn and to increase the public’s knowledge of this breed of cattle. One area of expanding growth is the development and popularity of the miniature Texas Longhorn. The miniature breed stands 40 inches tall and is tailored for smaller operations, even those as small as an acre which would like to have a couple of them on the property. Brewer shows Longhorns every year at the New Mexico State Fair, where Robert Smoot and Clay Bailey ride them as well. It’s fair to say a few Longhorns have made it into the movies.

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decisions, and has a strong understanding of the challenges that come with stewarding the West.” And PLC president Dave Eliason stating, “We are excited for Representative Zinke to refocus the agency’s efforts to their core mission, and to have someone in this role that understands the unique challenges we face in the West.” As predicted, there were plenty of hosannas to collaboration and inclusion of all stakeholders. Zinke said he would be “working with rather than against” local communities and states by being “a listening advocate rather than a deaf adversary.” Those are pretty words, but most of us will be more interested in what he does after listening. And speaking of collaboration…

Collaborating & compensating? On August 5, 2015, near Silverton, Colorado, EPA personnel and employees of an EPA contractor caused the release of wastewater and tailings, including toxic levels of lead and arsenic and other harmful elements. The spill affected the waterways of municipalities in the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, as well as the Navajo

Nation. The Animas River turned orange but the EPA didn’t notify New Mexico and Colorado until the next day after the spill. But hey, who said all this collaboration had to be quick. The EPA initially set the spill at one million gallons. They lied. The USGS determined the spill was triple that size at over three million gallons. But hey, who said all this collaboration had to be accurate. EPA administrator Gina McCarthy stated the agency accepted “full responsibility” for the spill. Well, cry me a polluted river if she didn’t lie. The EPA has just announced attorneys at EPA and the Justice Department have determined EPA can’t pay the over $1.2 billion in claims for damages because of sovereign immunity. But hey, who said all this collaboration had to be truthful. Congress can waive sovereign immunity, and if they chose to collaborate with the states and the river users, they will do so. Congress should also pay these claims out of EPA’s budget. This whole episode is a prime example of collaboratin’, compensatin’ and stickin’ it to the stakeholders.

BLM brown baggin’ with Bigfoot The press has reported on a January BLM Brown Bag Lecture in Safford, Arizona. The event had a documentary on Bigfoot, and featured “a Bigfoot lookalike contest, door prizes, popcorn, Bigfoot cookies, and more.” Brown baggin’ with Bigfoot, including Bigfoot cookies, at the BLM office. Nice to see their budget’s not in the dire straits they often claim. I wonder what their February brown baggin’ will feature. A BLM Break with Big Bird? Till next time, be a nuisance to the devil and don’t forget to check that cinch. Frank DuBois was the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003, is the author of a blog: The Westerner (www.thewesterner.blogspot.com) and is the founder of The DuBois Rodeo Scholarship and The DuBois Western Heritage Foundation

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estern researchers say they have found genetic markers to breed cows that graze farther and wider. A group of western researchers say they are very near developing a test for cattle which are more genetically predisposed to climb hills and cover more difficult terrain while grazing. A few years ago, Derek Bailey, a professor of range science at New Mexico State University, noticed some cattle appeared consistently more willing to graze the ground less traveled. “I’ve been watching cattle for years, and there are always some cows that just take off for the hills, like they didn’t know they weren’t elk,” Bailey said. “They could be belly-deep in green grass, and just bolt for the hills. They like it up there. He said he mused: “We can breed for other traits. Why not select for hill climbing?” Bailey joined forces with a team of researchers, including Juan Medrano, animal geneticist from the University of

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California, Davis, and animal genetics expert Milton Thomas at Colorado State University. They were funded by a grant from Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. Medrano said recently the group is close to developing a genetic test for whether a bull is likely to sire daughters who like to climb hills.

Getting up there To identify hill-climbing cattle, Bailey and his crew put GPS collars on 180 cows on seven ranches in three western states and took measurements every 10 minutes for months at a time. They tracked the cattle’s slope use, elevation gain and distance traveled from water. They also took blood samples that Medrano and his team analyzed for chromosomal commonalities. Medrano found overlap in genes linked to locomotion, motivation and spatial learning.

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No side effects? With both plants and animals, breeding for one trait can sometimes produce unintended consequences. These researchers are looking closely at the possibility, and have so far found no correlation between hill-climbing behavior and undesired traits. “We’ve looked at calf-weaning weights, pregnancy rates, blood pressure, even disposition,” Bailey said. “We had one theory that hill-climbing cows tended toward the meaner end of the scale, but that’s not the case.” The big idea, of course, is that cattle selected for such grazing behavior would be particularly useful in big, rough country, where right now herding is considered one of the best ways to improve grazing distribution, and the spreading out of mineral and supplements is a close second.

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there was not a way to do so under House made by the new Congress in its busy rules. opening week. “That’s what sparked it,” Griffith told E&E The move underscores the changing News, recalling the origin of his legislative dynamics on Capitol Hill, where conservaodyssey that culminated with the resurrec- tives are eager to use their bicameral tion of the majority and over-100-year-old control of the White The unlikely trajectory cost-cutting rule as House for the first part of the House’s time in eight years for the rule started broader rules for the to slash the federal by George Cahlink, E&E News reporter 115th Congress (E&E budget. It also about four years ago, when t is not common for a century-old, parlia- Daily, Jan. 4). amplifies the fears mentary rule to leap from obscurity, but The provision of federal workers Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) and D emo crat s that’s exactly what happened recently would make it far when the House adopted the Holman Rule, easier to target who worry Presiwas reading through an thereby sparking a wave of concern about federal programs dent-elect Donald the GOP’s agenda regarding the federal and agencies by Trump and the GOP annual spending bill and workforce. cutting employees will use the rule to The unlikely trajectory for the rule or eliminating their target employees became alarmed to learn started about four years ago, when Rep. pay in the 12 annual carrying out work Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) was reading through appropriations bills. on policies they that the federal government an annual spending bill and became The practice had oppose — includalarmed to learn that the federal govern- been banned since ing climate change was spending $80 million ment was spending $80 million annually on President Reagan science, environwild horses. The fiscal conservative wanted was in the White mental protections annually on wild horses. to eliminate spending for the Bureau of House. an d re n ew ab l e Land Management program — which cares The return of the energy research. for about 50,000 equines to keep them Holman Rule, named for a 19th-century continued on page 60 >> from grazing on private land — but found lawmaker, was among the most bold moves

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WILD HORSES << cont. from page 58 “The jobs and paychecks of career federal workers should not be subject to the whims of elected politicians,” said J. David Cox Sr., the national president for the American Federation of Government Employees that represents thousands of U.S. EPA workers. But Griffith, a fourth-term lawmaker from southwest Virginia coal country, downplayed talk that it would be widely used, calling it “just another tool” to help both parties cut federal spending. “It ought not to be overused,” said Griffith, who speaks in a folksy style with a Southern twang. Ironically, Griffith, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, does not believe he’ll be able to use the rule to end the BLM program that started his quest. He says the Holman provision would allow him to cut the employees who care for the horses, but not end the actual law that requires the government to manage and feed the horses. “I don’t want to be cruel to animals. The idea was never to starve horses,” said Griffith, himself an avid birder who’s traveled around the world seeking rare avian species. Griffith said he’ll meet with House par-

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liamentarians to find out exactly what types Congress of 1796 that met at Independence of programs he might target. One idea Hall in Philadelphia. Griffith’s weeklong Griffith will float is whether he could search led him to a way he might cut spendpropose cutting EPA funding for those who ing — the largely forgotten Holman Rule. write regulations and, instead, force the “It wasn’t arduous, I love rules,” said Grifagency to spend those dollars on employ- fith, who also doubles as a parliamentary ees working directly with communities, expert for the House Freedom Caucus, a such as Flint, Mich., to get clean water. group of 40 or so tea party conservatives. “I “Because the rule has not been used in kept reading them until I found language I so many years, I need to figure out what the liked.” precedents are,” said Griffith, who said he The Holman Rule, which was in place would also seek ways to make federal work- from 1876 to 1983, was designed to make it force reductions through attrition rather easier for any member to cut federal than outright layoffs. spending. Despite that assurance, his targeting of Its original author, Rep. William Holman EPA is only likely to increase fears among — an Indiana Democrat who served nonagency workers who already worry they are consecutive terms in Congress from 1859 in the crosshairs of the Trump to 1897 and was a onetime chairman of the administration. Public Lands Committee — would have Griffith himself has been a frequent critic been at home with today’s tea party. A of EPA, arguing its increased regulations leading critic of federal spending and an have harmed coal mining, one of the expert on rules, Holman rallied against the leading industries in his rural district. He has federal bureaucracy, opposed spending on an 8 percent lifetime score from the League port and river infrastructure projects, and of Conservation Voters. called for banning congressional pay raises. Holman’s rule had only limited success ‘I love rules’ over the years, including cutting some Port After being told he could not cut BLM, of New York customs officials around the the self-styled parliamentarian pored over continued on page 62 >> House rules that stretched back to the 4th

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WILD HORSES << cont. from page 60

Last spring, Griffith got a House Rules concept, it might now be that bad,” said subcommittee hearing on the bill and kept Bishop, who said he worries the rule change turn of the century and trimming naval selling it to GOP members. could lead to indiscriminate cuts in spendofficers in the nursing corps in the 1930s. A new generation of GOP leaders, ing that would better be decided by Former Speaker Tip O’Neill, however, among them Majority Leader Kevin McCa- authorizing committees than hasty floor shelved the rule in the early 1980s. rthy (R-Calif.), who was elected in the same votes. Griffin said O’Neill made the move 2010 tea party wave as Griffith, embraced Democrats criticized the rule when the because House Democrats were worried the plan as a “big change” and as a way to package came up for a vote recently. Reagan-era conservatives were too eager get at hard-to-cut programs. FreedomBut their warnings were somewhat to cut the budget. But Wo r k s , t h e muted amid a flap over a failed plan by the Democrats believe it was pro-fossil-fuel GOP to weaken the Office of Congressional scrapped because it group with ties Ethics. As a result, a day into the new Con(That it holds) hostage to the Koch gress, Griffith had resurrected a loophole threatened to slow — and even derail — the r o t h e r s , for cutting spending that had not been the financial security of bpraise annual appropriations d the used for more than three decades. process with too many provision as a Top Democratic appropriator Rep. Nita individual federal employees way to help Lowey amendments. of New York derided the move as a Griffith began proreduce federal “terrible idea.” She added, “Holding hostage and their families is reckless spending and the financial security of individual federal moting the notion of reviving it among his tea rein in the employees and their families is reckless and and immoral.” party allies, who quickly nation’s debt. immoral.” embraced it, though When the Griffith insists that safeguards, including former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), a House rules package came up before the a requirement that any Holman amendfrequent foil of the right, had little interest conference, the Holman Rule was proposed ments be first approved by the House Rules in it. The politics shifted when Speaker Paul on a one-year trial basis, and a bid to strip Committee, are in place to make sure it’s Ryan (R-Wis.) took over for Boehner in a it by some veteran lawmakers, including not misused. conservative revolt in 2015 and asked junior House Natural Resources Chairman Rob He added, “It’s only on a trial basis — just members to propose new ideas for running Bishop (R-Utah), fell short. in case the sky does start to fall.” the House. “I may have overreacted to the entire

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NEW MEXICO’S OLD TIMES & OLD TIMERS by Don Bullis, New Mexico Author DonBullis.biz

here is a long-standing debate among historians regarding the end of the so-called “Wild West.” Some maintain that it ended with the coming of the rail-

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would extend it to the 1930s, but in 1932 alone one would have thought that a time warp had taken New Mexicans back by fifty or so years. In late February of that year, Lea County Deputy Sheriff, J. M. “Jim” Clifton, 29 years old, while having a cup of coffee in Bullard’s café in Tatum, received phone call from the sheriff’s office in Lovington. The sheriff told him that the Dean Hardware store in the county seat had been robbed at gunpoint and the three bandits were headed north. Deputy Clifton was soon able to stop a car which fit the sheriff’s description north of Tatum. “I’d like to talks to you boys,” Clifton said as he approached the driver’s side of the car. The driver stepped out of the vehicle and pulled a gun. Clifton was able to take the weapon away from bandit Walt Carlock, but while he was doing it a second of the thieves, John O’Dell, shot the deputy several times. Knocked back and reeling, Clifton drew his own pistol and commenced firing. When he was done, both Carlock and O’Dell were dead. The third robber escaped. Deputy Clifton managed to drive himself to the schoolhouse in the village of Crossroads where he received medical help. He died later that day in a Lubbock hospital. The local press said this of Deputy Clifton: “In his passing, law and order in New Mexico have lost a champion; in his passing a place has been made vacant that cannot be filled…the mould [sic] in which he was cast has been broken, and the like of him, in these parts, will never be duplicated. We liked him.” In June of the same year, United States Customs Service Inspector J. H. “Jay” Heard of Hachita was shot from ambush and died a few days later. Heard and a ranchman named Claude Gatlin had been involved in a dispute over a flock of turkeys owned by Heard. At one point, Heard administered a beating to Gatlin. Later, Heard visited the Tom Boles ranch in New Mexico’s boot-heel region, near Hachita, as a part of his work as a Customs Inspector, and Gatlin was present. Gatlin promptly grabbed a rifle and shot the Inspector, who died later. Gatlin was never captured. One source says he lived a “squalid” life after the murder and

died drunk in a snow bank in northern Mexico. In August of 1932, a gunfight took place between bank robbers and Texas and New Mexico lawmen near the tiny village of Bluitt in far east central New Mexico. Bluitt was a small farming community located a few miles west of the Texas line in southern Roosevelt County. Lee Pebworth, 60, operated a small farm near town, but as a sideline he and a few of his friends robbed banks. On July 15 of that year they hit the bank at Olton, Texas, not far to the northeast. They made off with more than $3,800, a considerable sum at the time. Lamb County, Texas, Sheriff Bob Crim soon traced the gang to Pebworth’s farm, and with a posse of Texas and New Mexico lawmen, he set out to capture the robbers. The thieves didn’t go down easily. Gunfire erupted almost immediately, and Texas deputy Harve Bolin was killed instantly and Roosevelt County, New Mexico, deputy R. L. Hollis was severely wounded. The only outlaw wounded was Pebworth, and, even so, he was able to escape the scene as did his cohorts. Pebworth was captured in neighboring Lea County by Sheriff Bob Beverly a few hours later and was eventually sentenced to 99 years in prison (he served about ten years). The other bandits were Jack Sullivan, 25, and Glen Hunsucker, 19. Sullivan was captured a few weeks later after a running gunfight with lawmen in Mountainair, New Mexico. He was sentenced to prison in Texas for bank robbery, not for Bolin’s murder. Hunsucker was shot and killed near Corona, New Mexico, by a posse under Lincoln County Sheriff A. S. McCamant about a year after the Bluitt shootout. Today, nothing of Bluitt remains but a small and well-marked cemetery. Also in August of 1932, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, best known simply as Bonnie and Clyde, hid out in New Mexico. They were natives of Texas, but robbed banks and committed other crimes in several states and were suspected in the killings of a dozen people—nine of them lawmen—in the years between 1932

and 1934. After they killed two peace officers in Oklahoma in 1932, they hid out in Carlsbad, New Mexico, specifically at 522 North 6th Street, the home of Parker’s aunt, Elsie Stamps. Mrs. Stamps became suspicious of her visitors because of the amount of money the couple had, their late-model Ford, and their target practice with sub-machine guns near her house, and notified authorities. When Eddy County Deputy Joe Johns arrived—he had never even heard of Bonnie and Clyde—Barrow and his henchman, Ray Hamilton, kidnapped the deputy

and then fled south to Texas. They released Johns unharmed in San Antonio a few days later. The killers are not believed to have returned to New Mexico. A posse of lawmen led by former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer shot and killed both of them in an ambush near Gibsland, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934. After Parker’s death, Mrs. Stamps said, “I am glad she is dead, but I am sorry she had to go the way she did, without repenting, because she surely is in hell.” Maybe there is no point in setting a date for the end of the Wild West.

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A Journey to the FDA

have never seen the Taj Mahal, the Vatican or Fort Knox, all monoliths wrapped in mystery, placed beyond politics, Google and the Rubix Cube. But I can now claim I have seen the FDA in the Land of Acronyms, Washington, DC, and survived. In my case, it was the FDA, CVM . . . Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine. I was escorted by my friend Dr. Jim, DVM CEO, President and Founder of SVC, a company that consults and guides pharmaceutical companies through the maze that is required to earn drug approval for use in animals. The mental picture I had before my visit was akin to the Supreme Court or a Court Martial . . . a line of wizened, beady-

eyed scowling geezers wearing robes and wigs looking down at the poor supplicant who is trying to present his case while strapped to a wooden chair with duck tape under a swinging interrogation lamp. I WAS WRONG! Ten of the most influential people in the world of veterinary drugs invited me to join them at a conference table which appeared to be borrowed from a high school teacher’s lounge. Two were wearing jeans, three wore a tie and all were wearing comfortable shoes. The attire was casual. Each one took the time to explain their position and responsibility including livestock, equine, dogs, cats, minor species, legality, finance, practicality and impact. The subject on top of their pile is the possible resistance of organisms to antibiotics passed from animal to man. To date there is no proof that it happens, but others think it might. It’s like the cause of “Global Warming.” Tough decisions. To appreciate the scope of their job, imagine a list of all veterinary drugs in use since 1965 through today that were approved by CVM. The process of approval is detailed and time consuming. Their mission statement reads, “Protecting Human and Animal Health: to insure the

drug is safe and effective for the patient and in food animals safe for people to eat.” Talk about all consuming! That is a huge promise. But they keep it and don’t back down. There are no loopholes. Rarely do we see such solid rock commitment to the people’s benefit, especially from government. It is the gold seal, the guarantee, the third party verification, it’s the law. Until CVM was instituted, medicine was CAVEAT EMPTOR, “Let the buyer beware.” And that same warning exists today on drugs for animals and humans that don’t have the CVM FDA seal of approval. Just read the label on the back. Being able to talk to those brilliant, dedicated people at that table gave me to realize they can see into the future of medicine. Genes loom large. Hearing them talk amidst themselves was mesmerizing, sort of a cross between ESPN sports announcers and J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos speculating with his crew about their next atomic bomb. It takes a while for their profound contribution of “Protecting human and animal health” to sink in. Think about it. The least I could do was to offer to buy’em lunch. They graciously declined.

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In Search of Income Do not underestimate the impact of change or rush into change by Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service

n 2012, the Dickinson Research Extension Center switched to May calving. We continue to tread along that path. I say “tread” because change always has a knob or two that needs adjustment. One of those knobs that need adjusting is selling the calves, or searching for income. The adjustment is timing and how different markets react to different weights of cattle. Either way, as a producer shifts the calving

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date, he or she finds himself or herself in new, unfamiliar territory in regard to marketing. Fundamentally, change involves a discussion with the banker because the most important part of any beef operation is income flow, and most operations are not self-funded. Changing the standard and historical income flow, particularly as borrowing obligations come due, sends up flags, perhaps even a warning siren. Many good and bad ideas can be put to the test when cash is flowing well, but when total income dollars slow, everything slows. Even for those producers who do not keep any records, a low checkbook balance or an overdraft makes for a quick discussion with the banker, who might ask, “Just what

are you doing?” Twenty-five years ago, I took over the reins as the director of the NDSU Dickinson Research Extension Center. The thought of implementing new research ideas and sharing new educational opportunities was awesome. But the administrative obligations also were there. I found myself asking many times, “Did we pay the bill last year?” If the answer was yes, the bill got paid; if no, the bill was set aside for discussion. Historical data have a tremendous influence on present decisions. Spending patterns and associated income that trigger the spending after a successful production year generally follow a rigid pattern. Change to the historical pattern implies risk; risk implies potential failure. Failure may mean the loss of the cattle operation. Change has real consequences, which is no different than payday for the average person. Expenses and income always must reconcile on payday. Back to the DREC and income. After several decades of cash flow dependence on the sale of fall calves, May calving and a shift to yearling production changed the income schedule. Fortunately, the center took several years to make the change, and for most producers, the same would be true. Change is difficult, maybe impossible, to make all in one step. Since starting May calving, the cattle and sale inventory at the DREC has shifted from a fall-based sale of calves to a February-based sale of finished yearling steers and spayed heifers. To make the change and skip a year’s income, the center had to tread slowly. That meant selling portions of cattle and moving slowly as fewer and fewer fall calves were sold and replaced with an inventory of yearling and fat cattle.

Currently, the center can retain ownership in all cattle until they reach market weight as finished cattle. What does the current inventory look like? The DREC cattle inventory was 644 head on Jan. 24, 2017, including 264 pregnant females and 17 bulls. The 2016 calf crop is weaned: 119 steers, two bull claves and 110 heifers. The 2015 calf crop that is not bred in the cow herd includes 82 feedlot steers, 16 spayed heifers on feed and one realizer, a poor-performing calf generally with no identifiable explanations for the poor growth. The center has 32 market cows on feed and, as with many ranches, there always is an exception. At the center, it’s one 2012 spayed heifer there for company. If the center were a “traditional” cow-calf enterprise, the 119 weaned steer calves and heifers, minus the herd replacements, would be sold or ready to sell. But through time, the steer calves, as well as the heifers, have been held over to a yearling program. More heifers also are retained to make up for a lowered cow inventory. The cow inventory was lowered when prices were high to keep cash flowing as more yearlings were

kept. The income generators for the center are now finished steer and spayed heifer yearlings at around 22 months. Market cows and bulls are fed and marketed after the fall rush. Essentially, May calving has altered how the center fits into the beef marketing world. The rush that seemed to be present within the traditional paradigm of beef production has transitioned to what appears to be a slower-paced production system. The intensity still is present. But because

the calves are still in the pens eating hay, we have more time to contemplate, to plan and to adjust. The take-home message for us is not to underestimate the impact of change or rush into change. Rather, do not deny change, but contemplate, through time, alternative management systems that help control cost and put some more money in the cash-flow stream. Cash is good. Do not give up looking! Opportunities exist. May you find all your ear tags.

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Wild Horse Border Patrol by Heather Somerville, widerimage.reuters.com

ong before the desert sun has had a chance to heat the dusty prison yard, some 20 inmates at an Arizona state prison begin quietly tending horses. The men – many with violent histories – gently maneuver bits into the mouths of mustangs still unaccustomed to human touch; they remove caked mud from hooves and tighten girths against bulging bellies. And the horses, which just weeks ago roamed free, mostly comply with what is asked of them. Both the men and the horses are still learning how to live behind fences. Prisoners participating in the Wild Horse Inmate Program train mustangs that will eventually be adopted by the U.S. Border Patrol, providing the agency with inexpensive but agile horses, and inmates with skills and insights they hope to one day carry with them from prison. For Brian Tierce, 49, who has served about five years of his seven-year sentence for domestic violence and assault, says the horses have taught him “a lot of things I

didn’t know I had in me – patience, perseverance, kindness, understanding.” “I’ve got to be a compromising person, otherwise I’ll never get this job done.” At least 80 percent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s current stable of 400 horses come from inmate training programs in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas and Nevada. The horses are critical for patrolling the rugged and remote stretches of the Mexican border to detect illegal crossings by migrants and drug trafficking. And, at $500 to $800 for a saddle-ready horse, the price is right. Some 55,000 mustangs roam the Western U.S., more than double the number public land can support, said Bureau of Land Management spokesman Jason Lutterman. Those that do not end up in adoption programs face an uncertain future. At the prison in Florence, a cactus-dotted town about 140 miles north (225 km) of the Mexican border, participating prisoners round up their horses before dawn and work all day under the watchful eyes of Randy Helm (left), the third-generation rancher, former narcotics officer and self-proclaimed “cowboy preacher” who supervises the program.

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Over the course of four to six months, the men train their horses – with names like Billy, Rocky and Patches – to tolerate bridles and saddles, respond to commands to trot and canter and perform footwork that will come in handy on the uneven desert terrain along the border. Helm, 62, teaches the men not to “break” the horses, but to “gentle” them. The method relies on incremental steps and rewarding the horses for good behavior. Any inmate that raises a hand to a horse gets booted from the program. “It’s more working on us than on them,” said Rick Kline, 32, who has served five years of a seven and a-half-year sentence for stealing cars. “It’s a new understanding of calming down.” He hopes to apply that skill of staying calm to parenting his two kids when he gets out of prison. Bret Karakey, 35, who is in prison for identity theft, recently broke his hip when he was thrown from a horse. But he came back without hesitation. “I kind of need this,” he said. Most prisoners who apply for the program don’t have experience with horses, and Helm prefers it that way. They tend to be gentler with the animals.

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Florence began its horse training program in 2012, and while it is too early to assess the long-term effects on participating inmates, of the 50 or so who have gone through it and been released, none has returned to prison, Helm said. The national recidivism rate is about 68 percent within three years of release. Helm says he sees real transformations in inmates who stay with the program. “A lot of them haven’t really bonded with a person, let alone an animal,” he said. “It’s been really interesting to observe these guys’ lives change.”

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dwindling public interest in horse ownership, the BLM can place only about 2,000 into adoption each year, severely limiting the number it can capture from the open desert and plains, Lutterman said. Fifteen years ago, the BLM was rounding up more than 10,000 mustangs and putting about 6,000 into new homes each year. Border Patrol is the biggest single purchaser of mustangs from the inmate programs. On horseback, the agents can navigate desolate stretches land that vehicles cannot. The mustangs are sure-footed on steep

third of the border. The rest is defined by mountains, rivers, private ranches and wild country – terrain more suited for horses, which all agents had back when Border Patrol was founded in 1924. The San Diego border patrol unit has 28 horses, and the Tucson unit more than 130. Fifteen horses from the Florence prison were adopted in 2014 and 2015. The task of the Florence inmates who train the horses is, at times, thick with irony: Some are Mexican nationals, apprehended on the border for drug-related offenses. The inmates, though, say they don’t

Mustangs eventually adopted by the U.S. Border Patrol, provide the agency with inexpensive but agile horses, and inmates with skills and insights they hope to one day carry with them from prison.”

U.S. Border Patrol adoptions are key to the government’s effort to stem the nation’s growing population of mustangs. A federal law passed in 1971 tasked the Bureau of Land Management with managing wild horse and burro populations in the American West, both to protect the animals and to ensure that vegetation was not overgrazed and water sources depleted. But with the soaring cost of hay and

terrain, crossing creek beds without hesitation and stepping spryly over rattlesnakes. “It really feels like the Wild West out where we patrol for sure,” said Bobby Stine, supervisory agent of the San Diego Sector Horse Patrol Unit. “There’s just not a lot of law enforcement presence, except for us.” The border is an unforgiving place; just 654 miles of fence exist between the United States and Mexico, accounting for about a

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mind that the horses help law enforcement. They are simply happy the animals no longer face thirst and starvation in the drought-stricken West. “All the ‘inmates against cops’ stuff that’s not true,” said Kline. “They’re just doing their job. And we’re doing our job. These horses depend on us.”

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nbreeding, linebreeding, outcrossing and crossbreeding are terms describing various types of selective mating for certain genetic purposes. Inbreeding is defined as the mating of closely related individuals. In the broadest sense, all animals within a certain breed are somewhat related, but the term inbreeding refers to mating of individuals that are more closely related than the breed average— such as sire to daughter, dam to son, or the mating of full siblings or half siblings. The opposite situation is outcrossing, in which the two parents within the same breed are unrelated (at least in a definable pedigree). This creates more genetic diversity within the resultant offspring. Even more diversity can be had with crossbreeding, which is the term for mating two individuals of different breeds. This genetic diversity results in the phenomenon called heterosis, or hybrid vigor—in which the offspring exhibit greater health, strength,

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fertility and longevity than purebreds. some livestock breeders and termed lineSince all pure breeds trace back to a rel- breeding by others. atively limited number of foundation Inbreeding basically increases the probanimals, all pure breeding is by strictest ability that the two copies of any given definition inbreeding, although this term is gene will be identical, derived from the not generally used to refer to matings same ancestor. Technically, that animal is where a common ancestor does not occur homozygous for that gene. By contrast, the in a four or five generation pedigree. Breed- heterozygous animal (inheriting traits from ers of purebred livestock have created the unrelated parents) has some differences in term linebreeding, to cover the “milder” the two copies of the gene. forms of Each animal has inbreeding. two copies of any Inbreeding at its most Exactly what specific gene (two the difference alleles at each locus), restrictive definition refers one is b e t we e n derived from linebreeding the sire and one to what would be considered and inbreeding from the dam. If tends to be sire and dam are incest in human beings, such as defined differrelated, there is a ently for each chance that the two parent to offspring or a mating breed or genes in the offspecies of spring are both between full siblings.” livestock. identical copies Inbreeding contributed by the at its most restrictive definition refers to common ancestor. This can be good if the what would be considered incest in human gene manifests in a desired trait, or bad if beings, such as parent to offspring or a the gene is responsible for inheriting an mating between full siblings. Uncle-niece, undesirable trait. Genetic abnormalities aunt-nephew, half sibling matings, and first and defects that are caused by recessive cousin matings are termed inbreeding by genes may be doubled up in the offspring

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if both parents are carriers of a particular recessive gene, and will be exhibited in that offspring. Inbreeding can bring the undesirable recessive genes to the surface, showing that the parents were both carriers. In the days before genetic testing (for recessive defects), livestock breeders utilized inbreeding to prove whether or not a certain sire was a carrier of an unwanted abnormality, such as dwarfism. The bull had to be mated to 32 of his own daughters, and if any of them produced a dwarf calf, the bull was a carrier of this recessive trait. The carrier animal could then be removed from the breeding pool. Linebreeding is a term commonly used to describe inbreeding that is not as close as mating parent to child or sibling to sibling. Typically it involves arranging matings so that one or more relatives occur more than once in a pedigree, while avoiding close inbreeding. It may sometimes involve matings as close as grandparent to grandchild. Dr. Michael Gonda, Department of Animal Science, South Dakota State University, explains that linebreeding is merely planned inbreeding. “It’s called linebreeding when we don’t see a negative consequence! Inbreeding

and linebreeding are basically the same but commercial herd, because after the linelinebreeding generally refers to deliber- bred or inbred bull is sold off the place he ately mating related animals because you will be bred to cows that are unrelated to are trying to concentrate specific traits. The him,” Gonda explains. breeder wants to produce progeny related “We usually see minimal negative impact to an outstanding ancestor, while trying to if inbreeding is 5 to 10 percent. When keep inbreeding coefficients low,” says animals are more than 10 percent inbred, Gonda. You are maximizing genes of a that’s when you start to see inbreeding certain ancestor, on both sides of the ped- depression effects.” This means you would igree, but farther back than father to see loss of vigor, more sickness, more fertildaughter mating, siblings, half-siblings, or ity problems, etc. Therefore a sire-daughter even grandmating, or sire to mating of sibgranddaughlings, or sire to We usually see minimal ter. granddaughters “Linebreedwould be too negative impact if inbreeding ing is not much. something There are two is 5 to 10 percent. When animals are you’d intenadvantages to tionally do in inbreeding/linemore than 10 percent inbred, that’s a commercial breeding, for a herd. You can seedstock prowhen you start to see inbreeding get away with ducer. As already more in a mentioned, it depression effects.” seedstock enables the herd—where breeder to identhe breeder is selling genetics rather than tify sires that are carriers of genetic performance. If the inbreeding is higher in abnormalities. “This will show up if you the purebred herd, it theoretically won’t be breed those sires back to their daughters; as detrimental when the bull is used in a we can identify abnormalities that we don’t

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yet have DNA tests for and don’t know outstanding ancestor somewhere back in much about,” Gonda says. the pedigree. Ideally you would be only The other advantage to linebreeding is doing this while still keeping inbreeding that you can increase the relationship of coefficients low,” says Gonda. your animals to a genetically valuable Breeders might be trying to double up ancestor. “Stacking the genes” enables the a certain ancestor, having that individual linebred individual to transmit more char- appear on both sides of the pedigree, but acteristics than the farther back than other parent. “We father to daughter call this prepotency. mating, or siblings, or In most instances, This can be valuable half-siblings, or even to seedstock producgrandsire to grandinbreeding and ers who want to daughter. Inbreeding spread the genetics is often considered linebreeding should be of a valuable, outbad, and linebreeding standing animal avoided by cattle breeders has been touted as a throughout more of go o d to ol when their herd,” he selecting for certain (to prevent the doubling explains. genetics. In most instances, There have been up of “bad” genes) but in inbreeding and linemany instances where breeding should be some instances can be used cer t ain p urebre d avoided by cattle herds were intentionbreeders (to prevent as a genetic tool to “fix” a ally inbred or linebred. the doubling up of One example is the desired trait. “bad” genes) but in research project that some instances can began in 1934 at ARS’s be used as a genetic tool to “fix” a desired Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research trait. “What the breeder is trying to do is Laboratory (LRRL) in Miles City, Montana. produce progeny that are related to an “This study was done with Hereford cattle,

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and the researchers ended up with some animals that were more than 40 percent inbred. The Line 1 Herefords are an example of a successful linebreeding program that was able to maintain high relationship coefficients with a common ancestor (Advance Domino 13) while keeping average inbreeding coefficients relatively low (less than 10 percent),” says Gonda. The idea was to create some inbred lines within a breed that could later be crossed with unrelated inbred lines, as a way for cattlemen to capture more heterosis—or hybrid vigor—and produce a consistent product by crossing inbred lines within a breed. But this vision was never fulfilled (there was no official Line 2 created) and has since been largely supplanted by crossbreeding. As stated by Sharon Durham (ARS staff member) in a 2009 article about the Line 1 cattle, this project was started by using two sons of Advance Domino 13—the founding sire for the desired line. The two sons, Advance Domino 20 and Advance Domino 54, were purchased from Fred DeBerard of Kremmling, Colorado, and bred to 50 cows purchased from George Miles of Miles City, continued on page 76 >>

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LINEBREEDING << cont. from page 74 Montana. Then the daughters of Advance Domino 20 were bred to his paternal half-sibling, Advance Domino 54, and vice versa. After those first matings, the Line 1 Hereford cattle were maintained by USDA at Miles City and they all descend from this foundation. The actual inbreeding in each generation was kept low because matings between close relatives were avoided. This was a successful linebreeding program in which a high degree of relationship (39 percent) to the founding sire has been maintained for more than 18 generations. “Without linebreeding, the relationship to an ancestor 18 generations ago would be less than one one-thousandth of a percent,” stated Durham. This research project accomplished much more than just create a dependable line of closely related cattle. Most of the academic and commercial tests that assess production characteristics of individual bulls can be traced to this original research with Line 1 cattle. Things like length of feeding period and number of animals required to measure economy of gain in progeny testing were pioneered in the

development of Line 1 cattle and are now part of the Beef Improvement Federation Guidelines for Uniform Beef Improvement Programs. Data from Line 1 animals also contributed to the first estimates of heritability and genetic correlation for beef cattle. The genetic work with Line 1 also contributed greatly to our understanding of maternal genetic effects in beef cattle. The influence of a cow’s milk production on the growth of her calf is one example. “Early on, it was established that inbreeding could have detrimental effects on production efficiency. Crossing Line 1 with other inbred lines of Hereford cattle provided some of the first estimates of heterosis for beef cattle. These early results were complemented by the later observation that heterosis fully offset negative effects of inbreeding,” Durham stated. Hereford breeders and commercial beef producers have purchased Line 1 cattle for more than 65 years for use in their own herds. Today, direct descendants of the Line 1 Hereford cattle bred at Fort Keogh are found in almost every state and in several foreign countries. More than half of all purebred Herefords recorded in the United States today trace part of their ancestry to Line 1.

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Mating close relatives in the Line 1 program provided a continuous test for the presence of harmful recessive genes. “Thus, ARS provided a secure source of germplasm when the Hereford breed has run into problems with genetic defects such as dwarfism and epilepsy,” said Durham. The Line 1 cattle have also provided several unique opportunities for genetic research. As stated by Durham, the increased genetic uniformity resulting from long-term linebreeding makes genome sequences easier to assemble. This positioned the Line 1 Hereford cattle for contributions in future research. A Line 1 bull was selected to make a widely used genomic library, and DNA from a Line 1 cow was the foundation of the recently completed bovine genome sequence.

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t is with a heavy heart that I am saying goodbye to my dear friend and council director, Mark McCollum. There are many who have been Mark’s friend far longer than me (how fortunate you are), I have met few people in my life that have influenced me to the extent as Mark, in such a short time. Mark has served on the New Mexico Beef Council for six years, becoming my friend, my boss and my mentor. I’ve been the executive director of the NMBC for twenty-eight years, and have had the privilege of working with many council directors. Mark was in his own camp when it came to providing leadership on the council. His knowledge of all segments of the industry, his vision and optimism, his loyalty to the beef community and his dedication and commitment to council business, earned our respect and admiration. Mark’s passion for the Beef Checkoff and all it has accomplished, provided the council with the inspiration to tackle the challenges we are facing. But, it was Mark’s personal qualities that made us love and appreciate him. During meetings, whether you agreed or disagreed with Mark’s opinion, he never made it personal and always responded with empathy and understanding. Whatever job was at hand, he tackled earnestly and to the best of his ability. He was thoughtful and generous in his praise and gratitude for all the staff would do, often sending emails and texts to thank us personally. His hard fought battle with cancer taught us he was brave and that life is worth fighting for. He never allowed us to make concessions for him when he was so sick…never accepting an offer to pass on a meeting or event, or a chair to sit and relieve his discomfort, or to leave early to go and rest. Mark was always the last man standing. I am grateful that God made Mark’s last day, a full-day of hard work, doing what he was born to do…tend to his cattle and the business of cattle. I think Mark wanted it that way. Vaya con Dios, Amígo. Dina

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“Food Camp for Kids was a six-day, six-hour-a-day camp for youth ages 9 to 14 that included field trips, hands-on cooking activities and a lot of discussion,” said Laura Bittner, NMSU’s Valencia County Extension director and family and consumer science agent. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the hree out of four consumers know nothing or very little about farm- youth visited 4 Daughters Cattle Feed Lot; ing and ranching, according to a Toni Barrow’s grass fed beef farm and survey by the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Mathews’ Custom Meat Processing plant Alliance. That percentage is even higher in Belen; Hays Apple Orchard and Honey Farm and DeSmet’s Raw Milk Dairy in for youth. Bosque Farms “The idea for Food and Mechenbier Camp for Kids came Pig Farm in Los about with the underLunas; the organstanding that many ic garden at Green people are disconHouse Bistro and nected from where Tome Berry Farm their food comes from, in Tome; and the especially youth,” Valencia Flour Mill said Newt McCarty, in Jarales. NMSU Extension On Tuesday and agent in Valencia Thursday the youth County. “We wanted planned a meal, to show them where selected recipes, their food comes from shopped for ingrewith actual experidients and cooked ences of seeing the while learning about livestock, honey and food safety practicberry farms, orchard es. and dairy that exist in “We provided the their county.” kids with a hands-on Valencia County (above) Valencia County youth are Beef has annual agricultur- Quality Assurance certified! The NM Beef opportunity where al cash receipts of $76 Council sponsord the BQA training conducted they could take the Newt McCarty, NMSU Valencia County food products they million for livestock by Extension Agent. had learned about and $10.9 million for Participants in Food Camp for the day before and crops, according to (below) Kids watch as ground beef is packaged at the U.S. Department Mathews’ Custom Meat Processing plant in actually get into the of Agriculture farm Belen. The camp was held by New Mexico kitchen and prepare statistics. It has a State University’s Valencia County Cooperative recipes using those prodwide variety of food Extension Service agents. The NMBC spon- particular sored “Beef Day” the first day of the two production ranging week-long camps. (NMSU Photo by Jane ucts,” Bittner said. Volunteers from beef cattle, pigs Mooreman) Carolyn Chance and and lambs, to fruit orchards, raspberries and garden vege- Debby Hasse, taught the youth how to tables. It also produces products such as make black pepper biscuits and freezer jam. Hasse, a graduate of NMSU’s Master packaged meat, milk, honey and flour.

Youth learn where their food comes from during NMSU Food Camp for Kids

Food Preservation program, taught the youth about canning and freezing fresh produce. “We set some pretty high expectations of the youth,” Bittner said. “They were responsible for capturing the week’s activities using iPads from NMSU’s Learning Lab.” They used the iPads to take pictures, videos and notes from their interviews with the producers and growers. “They not only met our expectations, they exceeded our expectations with their technical skills and their presentation to a group of 30-40 adults on Saturday,” she said. “The New Mexico Beef Council was happy to sponsor “Beef Day”, the first day of the two week-long camps. This is a worthwhile education effort for the council to participate in. Teaching kids where beef comes from and the effort and care it takes to produce beef for their families’ tables, teaches our future beef consumers to feel confident in our products. I commend Laura and Newt for their hard work and thoroughness in organizing this excellent camp”, Alicia Sanchez, NMBC Chairman.

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Thank you, David! David McSherry completed a six-year term on the NM Beef Council. We appreciate your service and dedication to the New Mexico beef industry while serving on the council.

For more information about your beef checkoff investment visit MyBeefCheckoff.com 2016 – 2017 DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN, Alicia Sanchez (Purebred Producer); VICE-CHAIRMAN, Tamara Hurt (Producer); SECRETARY, Kenneth McKenzie (Producer). NMBC DIRECTORS: Bruce Davis (Producer); Zita Lopez (Feeder); Mark McCollum (Feeder); Milford Denetclaw (Producer); Susie Jones (Dairy Producer); Matt Ferguson (Producer).

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by Gene Johnston, www.agriculture.com

ale Woerner, Colorado State University meat scientist, says, contrary to the perception of many ranchers, market cows have become much more than the just-get-rid-of-them by-product. Woerner has studied this cattle market segment perhaps more than anyone. He’s telling ranchers to be aware of the increasing value of market cows and the variety of high-value products coming from them. For example, he says, not all of the meat from a slaughter cow goes into ground beef. Many rib, loin, and round meat cuts are sold as whole-muscle cuts, similar to steaks and roasts from fed steers and heifers. Some cow meat is sold as 90 percent to 100 percent lean-muscle cuts, which is near perfect for the lucrative beef jerky or deli-quality roast beef markets. “The perception has been that it’s all ground into hamburger; that’s not true,” he says. It’s pumping more money into prices for market cows. “We’ve seen market situations in recent months where the carcass cutout value of market cows is actually higher than that of USDA Select fed steers and heifers,” he says. Recent prices at sale barns have consistently been over $100 per cwt (and oftentimes over $120) for cows that are lean and in good condition. A healthy 1,200pound cull cow can sell for as much as $1,500 or more on the right day at the right place. The wholesale price of lean round cuts from cows is over $3 a pound at times – sometimes more than those cuts from fed cattle. That’s because the cow meat is leaner, and that’s what processors want. While some cow meat gets sold and processed as whole-muscle meat, the biggest market for cull cows is still exactly what you think: 90 percent lean beef trimmings for grinding into hamburger. Demand for that product has increased as cattle herd numbers have declined in recent years. “Any cuts that yield 90 percent or higher lean trimmings, like the round and chuck from cows, are really in demand,” says

Woerner. His best advice is to keep them in good One lesson for ranchers is to market health, follow Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) those animals wisely, like they are an principles, keep them lean, and you’ll get important part of the business, says the best price at sale time. Woerner. To do that, seek out buyers who Another point worth noting is that cull specialize in cow beef and fully reward the animals have much higher condemnation value. That might mean direct marAny cuts that yield 90 percent or higher lean keting to a packer rather than going trimmings ... are really in demand.” through a sale barn. There’s currently not much incentive to rates at slaughter than fed animals. Because feed cull cows before you market them. they are older animals that have experiWith the demand for lean cows in good enced more stresses and health issues on a condition, it still rarely pays to invest in ranch, the risk of carcass blemishes is higher. Woerner says to practice BQA techniques grain feed. “You will add fat to the carcass, and that’s with injections and handling of market not what is driving the value of cull cows,” cows. Horned animals can present an espehe notes. Plus, Woerner continues, cull cows are cially big issue with more likelihood of not good gainers anyway. They sometimes carcass bruising, trimming, and value add some quick compensatory pounds over discounts. the first 30 days of a feeding period, but after that they are very inefficient.

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Buying a Bull: The Consumer’s Homework by Stephanie Lastovica for Progressive Cattleman

urchasing a bull can be one of the most important investments made in a cattle operation, and finding the right breed, breeder and bull sale can make all the difference in the success of a program. However, the partnership between the seller and purchaser should not stop after the transaction; in fact, that should be the beginning. Although the producer has searched and located the right bull for their program, they may still have these questions for the breeder: ЇЇ How long will I be able to use this bull? ЇЇ How will his genetics add to the bottom line? ЇЇ What should I expect from these genetics? A reputable breeder will be knowledgeable in these areas and should accommodate the buyer in answering these questions. My father always taught me that one of

the most important elements of marketing livestock is to conduct a site visit at a customer’s operation to better understand their program. Conducting a site visit lets the customer know you have interest in them and their operation, and that you are attentive to their marketing needs. This is also a great time to cultivate any possible future marketing of the progeny of the bulls in the future, as this continues a good relationship between the buyer and the seller, allowing benefits from each other’s services. A reputable breeder often possesses outlets which like to purchase genetics from their program. When asking producers what they like in a successful bull sale, most responded with the following: ЇЇ The desire to work with a reputable breeder ЇЇ The ability to purchase bulls from a program that will stand behind their product and genetics Creating a long-term relationship ЇЇ between the breeder and the buyer ЇЇ Assistance in future marketing options In talking with several producers, I asked them how far they would travel for a bull sale and the reasons behind their responses.

The answer the majority of producers shared was that most people were willing to travel the necessary distance to receive the best quality. However, distance should not set you apart from selecting the best genetics. If genetics are equal, a closer geographical area is recommended as this may help ensure proper acclimatization of the bulls. Technology can also be an effective way to view bulls through pictures, videos and online sales. Today’s prospective buyers can evaluate options, research breeders and consider price range before making a selection. By doing the homework, there are many avenues to use to find the best bull for your program. “Bull purchases are most successful when buying from honest, data-driven seedstock producers,” says Tommy Perkins, executive vice president at the International Brangus Breeders Association. “Selection of potential herd sires should include evaluation of well-balanced expected progeny differences which will improve upon the traits most desired or needed to meet your marketing goals.” As always, you want to make sure that all bases are covered on health and biosecurity concerns when purchasing livestock. To do so, you must make sure all bulls meet animal health commission standards set by each respective state. Each state is regulated differently, so before travel and shipment is made for the bulls, checking on these regulations is a must. Some producers will also conduct comprehensive testing upon the completion of their sale so that the bulls can be confidently shipped to any destination. Not only do customers want a bull’s health verification, but it is imperative they also know the performance data of the bull they are purchasing to ensure it will meet the needs of their herd. Parker Friedrich, with Parker Friedrich Marketing and Consulting, states, “Good data is essential. The bull-buying public wants good, honest data that has some merit to it, so they can buy with confidence. Bull buyers want birthweights, weaning

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weights, yearling weights, scrotal measurements and carcass data.” This information can validate that they are buying into the genetics that will work best for them. Simplifying paperwork is a goal in most transactions, but a task that is very important yet often overlooked before, during and after a bull sale is efficient record-keeping. Proper identification of the bull is obviously something that must be a focus before the start of the sale. During the sale, it is critical to keep accurate records of the data pertaining to the bulls, sellers and buyers. Some of this information might include the following: ЇЇ Correct names and spellings ЇЇ Address (physical and mailing) ЇЇ Good phone number (home, work, cell) ЇЇ Email addresses Another key component to good record-keeping is ensuring all bull registration papers are correct and ready to be transferred in the buyer’s name after the sale. It is also imperative to be clean in your accounts receivable and ensure that proper settlements are made before the bull leaves the premises. Good record-keeping during this process is a must. Selecting the best bull can seem to be a daunting task at first look, but the reward comes when the first calves hit the ground, exhibiting the potential and future of your herd. This was something I learned firsthand growing up on a 200-plus head registered Angus operation in Texas as well as a family-owned livestock market. Our family worked diligently to grow our herd to the size that it is today, and a key necessity was selecting the right bull. Like many registered operations, we have been raising our own bulls for many years and continue to have annual bull sales while consulting for other sales. The key goal is to treat each bull customer with personal service, whether it is a repeat customer or someone purchasing the first bull to start a herd. One key principle to remember is that you must have confidence in your program and your genetics, and feel comfortable with your ability to make your program the best that it can possibly be. Friedrich added the following: “Stand behind your product and treat people the way you want to be treated. Sometimes it’s a hard pill to swallow, but in the long run it will create return business.” Words to live by when purchasing or selling bulls.

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nimal welfare has become a key business issue for the world’s leading food companies, which are paying increased attention to the matter within their supply chains, concludes a report assessing 99 major brands. Almost three-quarters (73 percent) of companies have published farm animal welfare policies, up from 46 percent in 2012, according to the findings compiled by Compassion in World Farming, World Animal Protection and investment firm Coller Capital. Top priorities are close confinement and the reduction of routine use of antibiotics, said the report, titled “Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare.” Farm animal welfare is emerging as a source of competitive advantage rather than being viewed only a potential business risk through increased costs or media exposes of poor practices, the report noted. Cargill and McDonald’s Corp. were

among companies that received a Tier 2 ranking for making animal welfare integral to their business strategy. Tier 3 companies that have established policies but still have work to be done included Hormel Foods, JBS, Subway, Sysco Corp., Tyson Foods, Walmart and Wendy’s. Those making progress on implementation (Tier 4) included Chipotle Mexican Grill, Costco Wholesale, Kroger, Panera Bread and WH Group. At Tier 5 for showing limited evidence of implementation were Chick-fil-A, ConAgra, Darden Restaurants, Dunkin’ Brands, OSI Group, Publix, Starbucks, Target and Yum Brands, among others. Those ranked at the bottom, or Tier 6, for showing no evidence of having animal welfare on the business agenda included Domino’s Pizza and Kraft Heinz. “As global demand for livestock products continues to increase, and the world seeks to reconcile food production with the ecological limits of the planet, it is incumbent on all of us to ensure that production systems meet both the health and behavioral needs of food animal species,” Keith Kenny, vice president of sustainability at McDonald’s Corp., said in a forward to the report.

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Twine: Cattle Producers Must Take Extra Precautions

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ith advancements in bale binding technology, ef f icienc y has increased. Today’s net wrap increases baling efficiency by 75 percent over twine binding. “In addition, net wrap also increases water shedding ability, resulting in less spoilage and outdoors storage losses,” said Taylor Grussing, SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Specialist. Due to these advantages, Grussing said that it’s no surprise that an estimated 90 percent of producers have converted from twine to net wrap over the last decade. However, Grussing said, producers need to remember that net wrap is not twine. So, although it was okay to leave twine on the bale when feeding or grinding, she does not encourage this practice with net wrap. “Net wrapping is newer and the effects on cattle consumption is relatively undocumented,” she said. “When net wrap is not removed prior to feeding whole bales or

In 2008, veterinarians at University of Nebraska Lincoln and across the state reported large volumes of twine accumulation in rumens upon post mortem evaluations of beef cattle. North Dakota State University diagnosed net wrap ingestion as the cause of an unexpected death in a feedlot heifer. A 2014 follow up study by Klein and Dahlen looked at net wrap digestibility compared to sisal and biodegradable twine. After 14 days of incubation in rumen cannulated steers, 70 percent of sisal twine disappeared while 0 percent, or none of the net wrap and biodegradable twine were degraded. “Since net wrap does not appear to be digested in the rumen, it can accumulate which may have implications on production efficiency and animal health if the digestive system is compromised,” Grussing said. She added that the highest risk occurs when whole net wrapped bales are offered on cow/calf operations, however there is also potential for net wrap to accumulate

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ast May, PLF won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes. That case was hailed as a victory for millions of landowners nationwide who were finally empowered with the right to challenge Corps wetland Jurisdictional Determinations (JDs) in a court of law for the first time in the history of the Clean Water Act. That decision bore fruit in late January 2017 when the Hawkes Company won its challenge to a JD asserting federal jurisdiction over 150 acres of its property in violation of the Act. Hawkes Company is a family-owned business in Minnesota that sought to harvest peat moss, for landscaping, in nearby bogs. The Corps claimed jurisdiction over the property as regulated wetlands, even though a Corps reviewing officer found the Jurisdictional Determination invalid. This put Hawkes in an untenable position: Hawkes could (1) abandon all use of the land at great loss; (2) seek an unnecessary federal permit for a few hundred thousand dollars; or (3), proceed to use the land without federal approval subjecting Hawkes to fines of $37,500 a day and criminal prosecution. When Hawkes challenged the JD in court, the case was dismissed as unripe for review. But the Supreme Court disagreed. According to the Court, a Jurisdictional Determination is a binding legal decision subject to immediate judicial challenge. In the recent decision, the Federal District Court of Minnesota ruled the Corps had gone too far and failed to provide site-specific evidence that the Hawkes

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But what Mr. Gaziano told Republicans was that the CRA grants them far greater powers, including the extraordinary ability to overrule regulations even Legal experts say that Congress back to the start of the Obama adminiscan overrule Obama regulations tration. The CRA also would allow the going back to 2009 GOP to dismantle these regulations quickly, and to ensure those rules can’t by Kimberley A. Strassel come back, even under a future Demoodd Gaziano stepped into a cratic president. No kidding. meeting of free-market attorneys, Here’s how it works: It turns out that think tankers and Republican con- the first line of the CRA requires any gressional staff to unveil a big idea in federal agency promulgating a rule to mid-January. By the time he stepped out, submit a “report” on it to the House and he had reset Washington’s regulatory Senate. The 60-day clock starts either battle lines. when the rule is published or when ConThese days Mr. Gaziano is a senior gress receives the report—whichever fellow in constitutional law at the Pacific comes later. Legal Foundation. But in 1996 he was “There was always intended to be concounsel to then-Republican Rep. David sequences if agencies didn’t deliver McIntosh. He was intimately involved in these reports,” Mr. Gaziano tells me. “And drafting and passing a bill Mr. McIntosh while some Obama agencies may have sponsored: the Congressional Review Act. been better at sending reports, others, No one knows the law better. through incompetence or spite, likely Everyone right didn’t.” Bottom now is talking line: There are about the CRA, rules for which Everyone right now which gives Conthere are no gress the ability, reports. And if is talking about with simple majorthe Tr u m p ities, to overrule administration the CRA, which gives regulations from were now to t h e e xe c u t i ve submit those Congress the ability, with branch. Republireports—for cans are eager to rules implesimple majorities, to use the law, and mente d long House Majority ago—Congress overrule regulations from Leader Kevin would be free to McCarthy recently vote the regulathe executive branch. unveiled the first tions down. five Obama rules There’s more. Republicans are eager to use that his chamber It turns out the intends to nix. the law, and House Majority CRA has a expanThe accepted sive definition of wisdom in Washwhat counts as a Leader Kevin McCarthy ington is that the “rule”—and it isn’t CRA can be used limited to those recently unveiled the first only against new published in the regulations, those Federal Register. five Obama rules that his finalized in the The CRA also past 60 legislative applies to “guidchamber intends to nix. days. That gets ance” that Republicans back to June, teeing up 180 agencies issue. Think the Obama adminrules or so for override. Included are istration’s controversial guidance on biggies like the Interior Department’s transgender bathrooms in schools or on “streams” rule, the Labor Department’s Title IX and campus sexual assault. It is overtime-pay rule, and the Environmen- highly unlikely agencies submitted tal Protection Agency’s methane rule. reports to lawmakers on these actions.

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“If they haven’t reported it to Congress, it can now be challenged,” says Paul Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Larkin also told me challenges could be leveled against any rule or guidance back to 1996, when the CRA was passed. The best part? Once Congress overrides a rule, agencies cannot reissue it in “substantially the same form” unless specifically authorized by future legislation. The CRA can keep bad regs and guidance off the books even in future Democratic administrations—a far safer approach than if the Mr. Trump simply rescinded them. Republicans in both chambers—particularly in the Senate—worry that a great use of the CRA could eat up valuable floor time, as Democrats drag out the review process. But Mr. Gaziano points out another hidden gem: The law allows a simple majority to limit debate time. Republicans could easily whip through a regulation an hour. Imagine this scenario: The Trump administration orders its agencies to make a list of any regulations or guidance issued without a report. Those agencies coordinate with Congress about when to finally submit reports and start the clock. The GOP puts aside one day a month to hold CRA votes. Mr. Obama’s regulatory legacy is systematically dismantled—for good. This is aggressive, sure, and would take intestinal fortitude. Some Republicans briefed on the plan are already fretting that Democrats will howl. They will. But the law is the law, and failing to use its full power would be utterly irresponsible. Democrats certainly would show no such restraint were the situation reversed. Witness their treatment of Mr. Trump’s cabinet nominees. The entire point of the CRA was to help legislators rein in administrations that ignored statutes and the will of Congress. Few White House occupants ever showed more contempt for the law and lawmakers than Mr. Obama. Republicans if anything should take pride in using a duly passed statue to dispose of his wayward regulatory regime. It’d be a fitting and just end to Mr. Obama’s abuse of authority—and one of the better investments of time this Congress could ever make.

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Bull Price Trends Appear Mixed Heading into the Spring Season There will be plenty of bulls available this year, and while average prices will be lower than last year, the better bulls will still command lots of attention by Wes Ishmael, BEEF magazine

ne way or the other, bull prices always follow the commercial calf market. It’s the degree and speed of the price change that’s always iffy. “Historically, our seedstock business has tracked six to 12 months behind the commercial market,” says Coleman Locke, president of J.D. Hudgins Inc. at Hungerford, Texas. “If the commercial market declines or increases, ultimately we see it in our market.” Plenty of variables are jiggling the bull price equation at this point in history, though. For one thing, bull supplies are likely heftier than a year ago, as some seedstock suppliers expanded their offerings in anticipation of another year of herd expansion. Consider BEEF’s Seedstock 100 list. Last year’s list represented 52,161 bulls marketed. This year’s comprises 54,699 bulls, about 23 percent more than two years earlier. Though odds favor the national cowherd being larger on Jan. 1, other factors — including economics and drought in the Southeast — suggest expansion will continue to sputter, and perhaps end next year. Then there is the steep year-to-year decline in calf prices. At the end of the last week of October — the nadir of the fall market — steers weighing 600 to 700 pounds in the North-Central region averaged $121.85 per cwt, according to the regional weighted average from USDA’s National Weekly Feeder and Stocker Cattle Summary. That was 39 percent less than the same week a year earlier. Steers weighing 500 to 600 pounds in the South-Central region ($128.18) and Southeast ($113.60) were 40 percent less and 42 percent less, respectively. Where price volatility earmarked the decline from the steep pitch of recent record-high levels, it appears price variability may be the hallmark of bull price adjustment. Depending on who you talk to or which sales you watched, bull values at fall sales

were surprisingly strong. For instance, prices at J.D. Hudgins’ two fall sales were on par with their sales last spring and the spring before, which were the strongest in the program’s lengthy history. “We haven’t seen any drop in the price for Brahman cattle at this time,” Locke explains. “There has been tremendous demand for Brahman cattle since recovery from drought in this part of the world.” He adds that international demand continues to strengthen each year, following the lifting of the embargo on breeding stock that was implemented following the discovery of BSE in the United States in 2003. On the other end of the fall extreme were reports of sales where the bulk of the offering traded at packer-pound prices. In between, lots of sales seemed to track either side of the steep percentage decrease in calf prices.

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Nutritional Management of Spring-Calving Cows Should be a Priority this Winter

by Dr. Jason Smith, Assistant Professor, UT Beef Cattle Extension Specialist

ith the recent drought conditions across much of the Southeast, hay and other forage resources will likely be in short supply this winter. With the added frustration of current feeder cattle prices, many of us may consider cutting corners on our winter feeding program. Because – let’s face it – hay is expensive, and dry cows don’t need very much to get through the winter, so we can put them on a bit of a diet to get through to spring grass without any problems – right? Wrong. Cows require almost as much energy and protein toward the end of late gestation as they do throughout lactation. Failing to meet their requirements during this critical period will come at a cost. But, before I address that, there’s something that we need to get out of the way – fear of feeding pregnant cows and birth weight. We’ve all heard that we shouldn’t feed late-term pregnant cows very much because it increases birth weight and causes calving difficulty. I hear it all the time. Unfortunately this is a common myth that needs to be debunked. An animal’s pheno-

type – what we actually observe – is the during late gestation, we might be able to result of the interaction between its genet- decrease birth weight slightly – if anything ics and the environment. Regardless of how by only a pound or two at most, and we good the environment is (ex: the develop- have research evidence from across the ing calf has all of the nutrients that it could country that supports this. That marginal possibly use), its phenotype, or birth weight decrease in birth weight doesn’t decrease in this scenario, will be limited by its genet- calving difficulty. Instead, it generally works ics. In other words, we can’t increase a calf’s against us by increasing the incidence of birth weight beyond its genetic potential calving difficulty. Because the cow is now for birth weight. This means that if a calf’s calving at a disadvantage – she has less genes say that its birth weight should be 80 energy reserves to be able to lay down and lbs when provided with all of the nutrients go to work. that it needs, we can’t make it 85. But birth weight aside, how the cow is We can feed cows manag e d this in excess and to the winter plays a e x te nt that we We’ve all heard that we huge role in her increase calving diffireproductive perculty, but it isn’t due shouldn’t feed late-term formance nex t to a change in birth spring. One of the pregnant cows very much weight. At the upper major factors that extremes of body determines if and because it increases birth condition, deposition when she conof internal fat may ceives during a weight and causes calving cause some constricbreeding season is tion in the birth canal. whether or not difficulty. I hear it all the If that occurs, the cow she was already has to move a calf cycling. Resumptime. Unfortunately this is a that is the same size tion of estrous through a smaller cyclicity is directly common myth that needs to space. In order for related to body that to happen, she condition at be debunked.” literally has to be at calving. If she the upper extreme in calves in a body terms of body condition – a body condition condition that is less than ideal, she’s going score of 8 or greater. Yes, she has to be to require more time to begin cycling than obese in order for over-conditioning to if she calved in better condition. A cow that increase calving difficulty. But if she isn’t, calves at a BCS of 5 or greater begins cycling and we deprive her and her calf of nutrients early enough to conceive within the window necessary to calve once a year. If she calves in poorer condition, she’ll be less likely to begin cycling early enough to conceive within that window. By cutting corners on our winter feeding program and sending her into the calving season in poor

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condition, she’s likely either going to take more time to breed back, or have a higher probability of coming up open. But regardless of whether or not you’re able to get her bred back, not meeting her nutrient requirements during late gestation can also have some major implications to calf health and performance. One of the first consequences is body temperature regulation, or lack-there-of. Energy status is the major factor that affects a newborn calf’s ability to stay warm during cold weather. The calf metabolizes the majority of the fat that was deposited throughout fetal development as a source of heat during the first 24 to 48 hours of life. If we aren’t meeting the cow’s nutrient requirements during middle and late gestation, and she doesn’t have enough condition to fill the void, the calf won’t have the fat stores necessary to keep itself warm. And anybody that’s ever had to bring a weak newborn calf into the house knows exactly what I’m talking about. Another consequence of nutrient restriction has to do with the calf’s immune system. Nutrient-restricted cows not only produce colostrum that is lower in quality, but they produce less of it. Insufficient colostrum consumption soon after birth can affect the calf for the remainder of its life, because it needs those antibodies to populate its naïve immune system. No matter how good of job we do at identifying and treating some health issues – I’ll use respiratory disease as an example – that sick calf will never be the same again. Some of these issues can be prevented by ensuring that the cow is managed appropriately prior to calving. In addition, fetal nutrient restriction may also have some more long-term consequences to health and performance of the calf through fetal programming – but that’s a topic for another article. In order to prevent these issues, we just need to focus on meeting her nutrient requirements in the most economical way possible so that she calves in sufficient body condition without making her too fat. Ideally, she’s fed to calve in the spring at a body condition score of somewhere between 5 and 6.5. Feeding her to calve in lower body condition doesn’t decrease birth weight to a meaningful degree. Instead, it just makes her harder to get bred back, and her calf’s health and performance will suffer the consequences along the way.

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Federal BLM Sued Over Recent Land Grabs by Ethan Barton, Daily Caller

conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in late January for withholding information regarding the agency’s land purchases in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Cause of Action Institute filed the suit after BLM didn’t produce related documents nearly six months after the watchdog submitted a Freedom of Information Act request. The requested records include purchase agreements, appraisals and related communications. “When the Bureau of Land Management buys private land to add to the hundreds of millions of acres the federal government already owns, Americans have a right to know why,” Cause of Action Institute Assistant Vice President Lee Steven said in a statement. “According to the Congressional Research Service, the federal government owns almost half the land of 11 western states and more than 60 percent of Alaska,” he continued. “The last thing these states need is more federal control of their land.” BLM already controls around 250 million acres and requested another $90 million for new purchases last year, according to the watchdog. “In many cases, however, little information about the details of BLM transactions is publicly available,” Cause of Action Institute’s complaint said. The watchdog’s statement added: “Americans deserve to understand how and why the BLM wants to increase its control over land that could otherwise be used for private or state purposes.”

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Apache Mesa Ranch – 5,300 + - acre rim rock ranch located off Hwy 84 south & west of Las Vegas, NM. 3,520+- deeded w/BLM & State grazing leases, cedar, pinon & ponderosa tree cover, rim rocks, mesas & grassy meadows. Nice HQ w/bunk house, includes caretakers home on 5 acres plus barns & corrals & plenty of scenery. Priced at $2,498,900 looking for offers. Ribera Farm – Small farm 5.3 acres w/3 bedroom home located on the Pecos River w/generous irrigation and water rights. Well developed, self sustainable farm has green houses, goats & chicken facilities. Priced at $387,500 Call Catherine 505-231-8648 Romero Ranch – 1000 acres has a 40 acre BLM grazing parcel attached. Mesa top location has grammas, side oats, sacatone, cedars, pinons & tall pines. 6 dirt tanks, close to power too. North & east sides drop into La Cueva Canyon. Starts at $400,000 Dilia Loop Road – Fenced 20+ acre parcel is planted in alfalfa & sweet grass, 4 irrigated sections plus 20 acre ft of ditch rights & Pecos River frontage. Excellent farming opportunity for organic vegetable gardens, alfalfa or sweet grass. Priced at $225,000 Upper Anton Chico – Outstanding alfalfa production on this 7.5 acres. Irrigated with under ground pipes, perimeter fenced, easy farm to work and water. Now $82,500 Bernal, NM – 20 acre view site is fenced on 3 sides, overhead electric, telephone on the lot line and has great valley views. Mfg homes allowed. Amazing price of $69,900 Apache Mesa Road – Way back on Apache Mesa off Hwy 84 are two 80 acre parcels, with good water wells on site. West parcel has septic system, solar array, storage containers and a travel trailer. Asking $185,000. East parcel has two dirt tanks, fence on one side, good mountain views. Asking $165,000 Both will consider owner financing. White Lakes Road – 1,100 deeded acres grass land, nice mountain views, over head electric on site, county road access. Wind farm? Solar array farm? Call for details...

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WAGONMOUND RANCH, Mora/ Harding Counties, NM. 4,927 +/- deeded acres, 1,336.80 +/- state lease acres, 2,617 +/- Kiowa National Grassland Lease Acres. 8,880.80 +/- Total Acres. Substantial holding with good mix of grazing land and broken country off rim onto Canadian River. Fenced into four main pastures with shipping and headquarter pasture and additional four pastures in the Kiowa lease. Modern well, storage tank and piped water system supplementing existing dirt tanks located on deeded. Located approximately 17 miles east of Wagon Mound on pavement then county road. Nice headquarters and good access to above rim. Wildlife include antelope, mule deer and some elk. $2,710,000 MIAMI HORSE TRAINING FACILITY, Colfax County, NM. Ideal horse training facility, 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx. 3,593 sq-ft home, 332.32 +/- deeded acres, 208 shares of irrigation, all the facilities you need to summer your cutting horse operation out of the heat and far enough south to have somewhat mild winters. Approximately 6,200 ft elevation. $1,790,000 MAXWELL FARM IMPROVED, Colfax County, NM. 280 +/- deeded acres, 160 Class A irrigation shares, 2 center pivots, nice sale barn, 100 hd feedlot. Depredation Elk Tags available. Owner financing available to

qualified buyer. Significantly reduced to $550,000 MIAMI 80 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 80 +/- deeded acres, 80 water shares, expansive views, house, shop, roping arena, barns and outbuildings. Reduced to $490,000 COLD BEER VIEW, Colfax County, NM 83.22 +/- deeded acre, 3,174 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 ½ bathrm, 2 car garage home situated on top of the hill with amazing 360 degree views. $560,000 RATON MILLION DOLLAR VIEW, Colfax County, NM. 97.68 +/- deeded acres, 2 parcels, excellent home, big shop, wildlife, a true million dollar view at end of private road. $489,000 FRENCH TRACT 80, Colfax County, NM irrigated farm with home and good outbuildings, $350,000 MIAMI 20 ACRES, Colfax County, NM. 20 +/deeded acres, 20 water shares, quality 2,715 sq ft adobe home, barn, grounds and trees. Private setting. This is a must see. $425,000 Reduced to $395,000 COLMOR PLACE, Mora County, NM 354 +/- deeded acres, I25 frontage, house, pens, expansive views. Ocate Creek runs through property. $275,000

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Buyers are looking for a ranch. If you have a ranch to sell, give me a call. Lincoln, New Mexico: Historic Vorwerk home with 33+/- acres . Rio Bonito river with 16.5 acre feet of historic water rights dating to 1853. Elk, mule deer, turkey, barbary sheep. Brochure at: www.sidwellfarmandranch.com SIDWELL FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC Tom Sidwell, Qualifying Broker 6237 State Highway 209, Tucumcari, NM 88401 • 575-403-6903 tom@sidwellfarmandranch.com • www.sidwellfarmandranch.com

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SPRING VALLEY – WEST (Ranch) All deeded 15,000 acres (more or less) just 45 air miles S.E. of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in rolling foothills. Good improvements, good water, good gramma grass. Cow calf or yearlings. Locked, gated entrance on pavement. Scenic. Has no public roads through this ranch! Price recently reduced to only $375.00 per acre. FREE BROCHURE upon request. Contact Larry (first time advertised).

LEA COUNTY NM, “WALKING CANE” RANCH Location: 15 miles NE of Tatum, NM on pavement. (formerly called the “Walking Cane” Ranch. About 29 sections with approximately 3045 acres (+-) deeded and approximately 15,600 (+-) NM State grazing lease, for a grand total of approximately 18,645 (+-) total acres. (no Federal lands) Rated at 400 AUYL. Watered by several excellent strong shallow wells. Some drinkers on pipeline system. Shipping Pens, Scales, Chutes at headquarters. Has older ranch house (livable), plus a very large Metal Shop – Barn Bldg. approx. 60’ x 140’. Plus large Arena.

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Mostly Honest?

once knew a Feller who said he was “mostly honest.” “Mostly honest!?” Just what in the heck is that? I, as most do, like to consider myself as being, honest. I considered his statement for a while. How can somebody be mostly honest? That’s kind a like being mostly clean! Mostly is similar to almost. It’s kind a like “almost” riding in Bronc. Almost winning the lottery. Almost telling the truth. How can you be mostly honest? Either you are, or you aren’t! Right? If you ordered seventy-two bales of hay from a person and they dropped off seventy, does that make them “mostly honest?” If you paid for ten pounds of X and only got nine, were you treated “mostly fair?” By a “mostly honest” person?” If I had ten doughnuts in a box and you took nine of them, but when questioned, said you only took a couple of them, does that make you mostly honest? Albert Einstein once said, “Whoever is

careless with the truth in small matters profess honesty as long as they can. To cannot be trusted with important matters.” believe all men honest would be folly.” If you were short-changed by a person Truth is, there was probably only one on a ten-dollar deal, would you do a thou- who ever walked this earth who could claim sand-dollar deal with them? Or a to have been perfectly honest. And it’s hundred-thousand-dollar deal? been about two-thousand years since he Then, I got to thinking more about it. was here. The good news however, is the Realistically, if you ever met a person who rest of us have his example to live by. This claimed to have never told a lie, you would has nothing to do with religion, but we know they had just told one right there. should all ask ourselves when put to the (Remember, even a little white lie is still a test, “What would Jesus do?” lie.) We are all born liars. From the time of Now don’t get me wrong. I do believe infancy. We do not want to tell the truth if there are honest people in this world. Lots it means of them. Some work getting into very hard at integrity. I trouble for even know folks I would If you ordered seventyour actions. play poker with over the two bales of hay from a Any toddler p h o n e . H o w e v e r, learns right honesty, just like every person and they dropped off away that if other factor in our charthey get in acter, is a work in seventy, does that make them trouble for progress. A learned doing a condition. “mostly honest?” certain thing, Thomas Jefferson when quessaid, “Honesty is the first tioned later if they did in fact, do that chapter in the book of wisdom.” certain thing, they usually shake their head I believe ol’ Tom was right. Honesty is a “no!” They do not want to be punished—so cornerstone of character. I believe my friend they lie. It is only after they are taught, not in the beginning was probably more truthto lie, that they become “mostly honest.” ful than most of us. In reality, most of us John Quincy Adams once said, “All men truly are “mostly honest.” However, we should all strive to be perfectly honest. It’s never too late to improve on our character!

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support for a pet, she said. But existing statues that guide such matters are designed to address children, not animals (which some courts think is just fine, at least in Canada). Some people argue that pets should stay with the children; others think they should remain with whoever purchased by Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post them, or whoever was their primary careivorces can be messy. Leaving aside taker. Often couples purchase pets with the very raw emotions involved, there shared money, but rarely do people want is the matter of splitting property. to be “bought out” of their share of Fido, as Who gets the house? Who gets the might happen with a car or a house, Hessler couch? Who gets the dog? said. If one of those items seems different to “The relationship with the animal is what you, that’s probably because you, like many is important in the family law context, so Americans, consider pets to be more like the property law analysis tends to be a poor family members than furniture. But courts fit for resolving disputes, and in fact, many do not. In the eyes of the law, animals are of the property settlement agreements are property. So although pet custody battles continuously disputed, making more work are often passionate and sometimes truly for the courts,” Hessler said. wacky, courts think of them more prosaiThe Alaska amendment was sponsored cally: as part of the “property distribution” by former representative Liz Vazquez (R) in a divorce. and the late representative Max Gruenberg, That’s why an amendment to Alaska’s a Democrat and family lawyer who told the divorce statutes, which took effect recently, Associated Press in 2015 that he’d once is making waves in handled a divorce the world of animal that resulted in law. It makes Alaska joint custody of a An amendment to the first state in the sled dog team. country to require “Our pets are Alaska’s divorce statutes courts to take “into members of our consideration the families,” Vazquez, ... is making waves in the well-being of the who lost her bid animal” and to explicworld of animal law. It makes for reelection in itly empower judges November, said in to assi g n j o i nt a statement last Alaska the first state in the custody of pets. In a year. “We have to blog post, the Animal remember that country to require courts to Legal Defense Fund we’re sent here to called the well-being Juneau to repretake “into consideration the provision “groundsent people; real well-being of the animal” and human beings, breaking and unique.” “It is significant,” many of whom to explicitly empower judges have pets they said David Favre, a Michigan State Unilove as much as to assign joint custody of pets. their friends and versity law professor who specializes in family.” animal law. “For the first time, a state has The Alaska bill also allows courts to specifically said that a companion animal include pets in domestic violence protechas visibility in a divorce proceeding tive orders and requires the owners of pets beyond that of property — that the court seized in cruelty or neglect cases to cover may award custody on the basis of what is the cost of their shelter. best for the dog, not the human owners.” “I hope it is the beginning of an explicit As animals’ social status has evolved, trend,” Hessler said of the well-being procourts nationwide have struggled with the vision. “It makes more sense to address pets-as-property idea, said Kathy Hessler, these issues at the legislative level to allow director of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis for public input and create rules that can be and Clark College in Portland, Ore. The applied evenly to all citizens.” parties involved often want decisions on custody, visitation and even monetary

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n the coming months, many ranches will be buying bulls, making this a good time to reflect on how genetic selection impacts the beef industry’s sustainability. Although, for good reason, the idea of sustainability has become a very popular topic, the understanding of how genetic selection contributes to sustainability remains largely overlooked. However, the genetic base of the U.S. cowherd might have one of the largest influences determining the overall sustainability of the beef industry. Here’s why. 1. The forage base of a ranch is the greatest sustainable resource of a ranching enterprise. Selecting cows that have the genetic basis to utilize forage efficiently, maintain body condition and rebred on a forage-based diet is one of the greatest contributors to the financial success of a ranch, and therefore sustainability. A cowherd’s ability to maintain a high weaning rate with minimal supplementation of harvested feeds is a key contributor to a ranch’s overall sustainability, and requires selecting replacement heifers with the right genetics to accomplish this. Cows that don’t match their environment or aren’t able to graze efficiently are largely a result of buying the wrong type of bull, i.e. poor genetic selection. 2. Utilizing genetics that match a targeted market end point optimizes resources and minimizes waste. Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole is highly inefficient, wastes resources and is costly. Breeding (and managing) cattle that are genetically capable to reach a given target market end point is a fundamental starting point. Not all cattle have the genetic ability to reach a Choice or better end point. So if your goal is the Choice market, it makes common sense to utilize genetics, in the form of the types of bulls a ranch buys, that allow that marketing possibility. Put another way, as an industry we should stop trying to turn cattle with Select genetics at best

into Choice or Prime quality beef. 3. Feed efficiency is an area that the beef industry has been increasingly criticized for. In an era in which the world population will reach 9 billion by 2050, which means agriculture will have to produce more food every year than was produced in the last 4,000 years, we have no choice but to produce more with less. Genetically selecting cattle that require less feed to produce a pound of beef is a key contributor to the beef industry’s overall sustainability. Even a slight decrease in the pounds of feed required to produce a pound of beef has a tremendous impact on the amount of feed required by the cattle industry, when spread across the millions of head of cattle fed in the U.S. every year. 4. Reproductive efficiency defined not only as the ability of a cow to produce a marketable calf every year, but also taking into consideration the resources a cow uses to produce that calf, will become increasingly important focus of sustainability. Using genetic selection tools that already exist, such as $EN and RFV applied to grazing efficiency, would go a long way toward increasing the efficiency of the U.S.

cowherd. If these underutilized genetic tools were more broadly used in the bull selection process, sustainability would increase dramatically. 5. Part of the answer to greater efficiency, which is the key to producing more with less, is selecting cattle with genetics that allow them to stay healthy. Morbidity and mortality is one of the greatest sources of lost efficiency, and therefore lower sustainability within the beef industry. Producing cattle that have the immunity and temperament to be efficient comes down to genetic selection. Genetics is not commonly thought of as an area impacting sustainability, yet genetics is one of the key tools the industry has to make continuous improvement. In some cases, it is about better use of genetic tools already in place. In other cases, it’s about developing new genetic tools. Either way, if the industry is to make the degree of continuous improvement that society increasingly expects, genetic selection decisions will also have to consider sustainability. And that starts with bull selection. Bryan Weech is a consultant and adviser on sustainable agricultural projects. Contact him at bryanweech@gmail.com.

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Questions that need to be addressed: Do you currently have the equipment to handle this product? Are there any special considerations with storage? With condensed distiller’s solubles for example, is a buried tank or a heated room available to store this product? How far will the product have to be hauled and how much will this add to the costs? The higher the moisture in the product, the more water is being transported which may decrease the economic value of some high moisture feeds. For high moisture feeds (>70 percent moisture) to be priced competitively, the farm needs to be located within an approximate 50-mile radius of the plant. No matter what feeds are used, always evaluate

freight costs. Dry distillers grains (DDGS) for example could be available at your local elevator for $175/ton whereas wet distillers grains (WDG) sells for $44/ton at the ethanol plant that is 100 miles away. Using the $175 and $44 values in the spreadsheet, WDG appears to be more cost effective. However, if the WDG is 100 miles away, the freight charge could change the economics. If the freight is $4.25/loaded mile on a 26-ton load of WDG, freight will add approximately $16.35 per ton. This makes the cost of WDG $682 per ton of protein versus $632 per ton of protein for the DDGS.

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ETA, say hello to 2017. In early January the animal rights group was slapped with a defamation lawsuit filed by a primate facility in Missouri. That follows a belated Christmas present PETA received the previous week: A second defamation lawsuit, this one filed by a zoo in Michigan. Both lawsuits claim to be responding to PETA harassment, and it’s certainly great to see people sticking up for themselves against animal-rights bullies. Both facilities claim that PETA has been threatening to sue them under the Endangered Species Act to try to take away their animals. The frivolous theory goes roughly like this: The ESA prohibits “taking” endangered species, meaning to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or

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Trump Began with Action on Obamacare, & Regulation Freeze David Jackson and Gregory Korte , USA TODAY

resident Trump spent the evening of his first day in office ordering all federal departments and agencies to find ways to ease the economic burden of President Obama’s health care plan as Congress works to repeal and replace it. “Thank you, it’s a great day,” Trump said after the signings in the Oval Office, before leaving for a set of inaugural balls. The first-day executive actions served to signal a marked departure from the policies of the Obama administration but provided little indication of the direction Trump would chart. The executive order, titled “Minimizing The Economic Burden Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal,” directed the administration to show maximum flexibility in applying the law to states, hospitals, health insurers, patients and, notably, medical device

manufacturers. of the day, something as basic as the But the order was couched in language content of the White House website like “to the maximum extent permitted by became an important signal to interest law,” leaving the particulars to legal groups about what issues would take priorinterpretation. ity in the Trump administration. The regulatory freeze memo was almost Shortly after Trump took the oath of word-for-word identical to a similar memo office, the government switched over the sent by President Barack Obama’s chief of White House website from Obama’s to staff on the first Trump’s. (Obama’s is day of his presinow frozen in time, dency. And that The first-day executive archived by the National one, in turn, was Archives and Records based on previactions served to signal Administration under ous memos by the Presidential Records Presidents Ac t .) T h e Tw i t t e r a marked departure from George W. Bush, accounts @POTUS and @ Ronald Reagan FLOTUS now belong to the policies of the Obama and Jimmy Trump and first lady Carter. It ordered administration but provided M e l a n i a T r u m p , all agencies to although the Obamas hold off on pubseem to have taken all of little indication of the lishing any their followers to @ regulation until direction Trump would chart. P O T U S 4 4 a n d @ Trump’s Cabinet FLOTUS44. members are confirmed and can sign off Policy proposals on Trump’s revamped on them. The White House may make website ranged from increased cyber exceptions for “health, safety, financial, or warfare capabilities to changing the terms national security matters.” of trade deals with other nations, issues the Trump made no specific policy propos- New York businessman discussed on the als during his inaugural address. So for most campaign trail.

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Also notable: There are pages on the website for the release of White House visitor’s logs, ethics pledge waivers, financial disclosures and staff salaries, suggesting that some Obama-era transparency initiatives may remain in place. And the White House “We the People” petition site also apparently survived the transition, with the first petition a plea for Trump to release his tax returns. Trump’s staff posted a variety of proposals ranging from an “American First Foreign Policy” to killing Obama’s climate action plan — plans largely echoing his campaign website. “For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule,” reads the top issue brief on the new president’s White House website. While the top issues on the Obama website were “Civil Rights,” “Climate Change,” “Economy” and “Education,” Trump’s site features different issues with more Trump-themed names: “America First Energy Plan,” “America First Foreign Policy,” “Bringing Back Jobs and Growth” and “Making Our Military Strong Again.” Various organizations expressed concern that, in wiping the Obama White House website nearly clean, the Trump team eliminated sections devoted to such issues as climate change, gay rights and civil rights in general. “The Department of Labor’s crucial report on worker rights has also disappeared,” said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “If President Trump truly believes in uniting the country, now is the time to make clear whether he will be an ally to the LGBTQ community in our struggle for full equality.” After the inauguration ceremony, Trump went inside the U.S. Capitol, chatted with lawmakers and signed documents that included formal nominations of Cabinet members and a waiver that allows Mattis to become secretary of Defense. The new president also signed a proclamation declaring a “national day of patriotism,” said the new press secretary, Sean Spicer. Trump later issued his first formal statement as president, thanking the Senate for confirming Mattis and Kelly, and added: “I call on members of the Senate to fulfill their constitutional obligation and swiftly confirm the remainder of my highly qualified cabinet nominees, so that we can get

to work on behalf of the American people ination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as Trump’s without further delay.” attorney general have warned that the new Trump also resumed tweeting within an administration could reverse Obama’s meahour of his swearing-in. sures on key voting rights issues and viewed “We will bring back our jobs,” he said the 30-day delay request as an early during a post-inaugural tweet storm. “We example. will bring back our borders. We will bring “Only hours after inauguration and we back our wealth — and we will bring back are already seeing signs that this new our dreams!” administration intends to delay important The new administration’s first executive litigation or shift its position in critical action, within an hour of Trump’s inaugural cases,” said Kristen Clarke, president of the address, involved canceling Obama-backed Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under cuts in mortgage premiums. The Obama Law. “This is not a good sign of things to policy would have saved home buyers hun- come.” dreds of dollars a year in mortgage fees on After an inaugural address saying that government-backed mortgages, but “the forgotten men and women of our Republicans in Congress have expressed country will be forgotten no longer,” Trump concern that the cuts to premiums could had lunch with members of Congress and leave the mortgage insurance fund without led the inaugural parade to his new home sufficient reserves. at the White House. Civil rights groups also criticized an Throughout the day, Trump staff opening move of the Department of Justice. members began trickling into the West Within hours of Trump’s inauguration, Wing, looking for their offices and trying to the DOJ asked a federal district court in figure out how the phones and computers Texas to delay a hearing scheduled for next work. They included aides who bolstered Tuesday on whether the state’s voter ID law Trump’s remarkable run to the presidency: was enacted with a discriminatory purpose. advisers Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, and Civil rights groups opposed to the nom- Kellyanne Conway, as well as Spicer.

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ur new ranch house that was built 50 years ago is located where we used to have some shipping pens with a dirt tank. It is twelve miles closer to town than the old ranch house and the road is much better, especially during monsoon season. It is truly a picturesque spot as you drive into the place. The pond as we call it now has statuesque cottonwood trees on the banks and is filled with wild mallards most of the year. There are some large maple trees out front and this is back dropped by the commanding Granite Mountain to the east. The west is topped off by Tonto Mountain and there we sit in this little grassy valley between them. We tend to catch every storm with the mountains on both sides and that is what keeps our valley grassy. The livestock keep looking good all year so we are happy about that. Adjacent to the pond and in front of the house as you drive in there has been a huge Dempster windmill. That old mill had been there since the 1920s. Last year one of our gusty windstorms ruined the fan and we had to take down the windmill for repairs. Since we also have an electric pump in a nearby well, repairing the old windmill kept

getting farther down the list. we are all sick of the traditional self aggranThe trouble with the old Dempster wind- dizing type of politicians that are all going mills is that they are hard to find parts for, to save us from some drummed up evil. and most of the parts are cast, so you can’t The American workers finally realized weld to them. This makes improvisation that the only things we need to be saved difficult. I was about to scrap the old mill, from are politicians. The one thing that disbut my wife and everyone else on the ranch appointed me about this election is that too wanted it back up at least as the familiar old many incumbents were not voted out of landmark that it had been. office. I have come to the realization that It took me about a year to find the parts some politicians are similar to coyotes or I needed. After I found the parts, it seemed rats. No matter what disaster befalls them that we had many more pressing issues to they still lurk behind every bush or under attend to. Meanwhile, back at the ranch a every rock. I suspect we can blame them on couple of the kids that intern here took it old Lucifer himself. upon themselves to paint the windmill The rest of the story is that when Mr. parts red, white, and blue. These kids were Trump speaks business leaders and the here from Germany, working for the United States Congress sit up and listen. summer and Look at what Mr. they were all Trump has accomquite proud plished and he I have come to the realization has of themselves. not even been Needless to sworn in yet. He that some politicians are say I had to must feel like erect the old Saint Patrick similar to coyotes or rats. No matter leading the rats mill once again. of Ireland. It what disaster befalls them they still out While all will be interesting this was to see who he lurk behind every bush or under going on with comes up with to the windmill replace the every rock.” so was the current Secretary presidential of Agriculture election. Talk about having a heavy wind Tom Vilsack who stepped down in early blowing all year. When did you have to start January. The news is reporting that the running for office a year and a half before farmers are nervous because he has not the election? Our process is getting out of appointed a new Ag Secretary as of yet. I hand. No wonder our country is going nuts bet most farmers would be happier if they after having to listen to politicians for that eliminated the post all together. I underlong. stand that the Department of Agriculture However, one thing that saved us this employs over 100,000 people. Maybe we year is that there was a non politician in the can cut that in half and lower farmers’ and fray. Also, if you chose not to listen to him ranchers’ taxes. you could read his Tweets. Funny, how the I was just talking to a developer the non politician became the winner. I think other day with several land and building

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the allocation of resources among the various uses. The law does make clear that covering costs is not a requisite mechanism to prioritize use. Instead, a balance of Congressional appropriations, complying with statutory mandates, manager preferences and public input determines federal land use. And it is impossible to satisfy the multiple-use preferences of 535 politicians, let alone 324 million Americans. Yet accomplishing good management first requires knowing what is trying to be achieved. It also requires incentives that are aligned with that outcome. Despite their revenue maximization goal, states also manage for multiple uses including conservation. But the focus is on directing resources to high valued uses and encouraging cost minimization. It is time to consider alternative proposals to improve public land stewardship. The transfer of some federal lands to state control is one option, but it is not a panacea for our vast federal estate. Public-private partnerships, charter forests, park franchises, conservation easements and leases, tradable grazing permits and dominant use areas would allow innovation and adaptive management to better meet Americans’ demands for resources, recreation and conservation. Current mechanisms to resolve these conflicting demands for the multiple uses of federal lands and resources are inefficient and costly. Experimentation with adaptive management can provide better tools to enhance federal stewardship. Holly Fretwell, research fellow at the Property & Environ. Research Ctr. & adjunct inst. of Econ. at MT State Univ., & author of “Who is Minding the Federal Estate: Political Mgt. of America’s Public Lands.”

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among bureaucrats. between droughts and storms. And if it “California is currently in the grips of an rains cats and dogs over Death Valley, we extreme drought with record low precipi- will be told that Global Warming causes tation,” it gloomily began. Then the canine and feline precipitation and that Sacramento River flooded, the downtown unless we agree to give Al Gore more rainfall record was money, we’re doomed to by Daniel Greenfield, frontpagemag.com broken and copies be brained by falling he ink was hardly dry on the Secre- of the report came felines. If the rain doesn’t tarial Order from Secretary of the in handy as makeJerr y “Moonbeam” Interior Sally Jewell blaming Califor- shift umbrellas by Brown believes in Global fall, that’s Global nia’s drought on global warming that rain scurrying staffers. Warming the way that and snow swept across the state. San FranSo there was the followers of his old Warming. If it does cisco International Airport was forced to nothing left to do pal, Jim Jones, believed cancel flights and there were blizzard warn- but blame Global in drinking poisoned fall, that too is Global ings for Lake Tahoe. Warming. Kool-Aid. He’s even preThe Los Angeles Times warned breathIf the rain Warming. The moonbeam pared to put his satellites lessly of a winter war footing. San Francisco, doesn’t fall, that’s where his brain is. left has traded in God the home of a million companies cashing Global Warming. If “We’ve got the scienin on environmental panics, received 130% it does fall, that too tists, we’ve got the for Global Warming as of average rainfall. Sacramento, where ter- is Global Warming. lawyers and we’re ready rible ideas from San Francisco go to become The moonbeam to fight,” Brown ranted to its universal answer to law under a Democratic supermajority, is at left has traded in the American Geophysi160 percent. God for Global cal Union. “If Trump turns everything.” Governor Jerry Brown had signed an Warming as its unioff the satellites, Califorexecutive order last year making temporary versal answer to nia will launch its own drought restrictions all but permanent. everything. damn satellite.” “Drought is becoming a regular occurrence,” After years of predicting that California’s Anyone who doubts that Governor Executive Order B-37-16 stated. Then the future would be a barren desert, the pre- Moonbeam can launch his own satellite proposal to “Make Conservation a Califor- dictions have been slightly revised. ought to take a close look at how well highnia Way of Life” had made a big splash California is now doomed to alternate speed rail is coming along. After being backed by Obama’s stimulus plan in ’09, the first and easiest leg of it has lately been delayed by four years. The stimulus money has to be spent by next year and there’s no way to pay for any of the rest of it except with more global warming taxes. At this rate, the magic anti-Trump satellite would cost $100 billion and be ready to ting !! go by 2054. Your Free Lis w e n e R st u uM g n ti s But that’s pocket change considering li e e URGENT! Yo fr .com/ how much money California has already aaalivestock spent and lost on Governor Moonbeam’s obsession with the Great Green Apocalypse. Brown demanded that Obama institute a permanent ban on offshore drilling. Offshore drilling might even produce enough money to fund his high-speed rail obsession. But math and Moonbeam have never been on speaking terms. He doesn’t have policies. He has dreams. “My own belief is that California has a unique place on the planet. It’s been a place of dreams. We can pursue a path of benign energy,” he once said. The drought has allowed Brown to pursue his dreams. Global Warming is a crisis in search of a disaster. Warmunists JERYL PRIDDY 325/754-4300 struggle to tether it to any natural or unnatCell: 325/977-0769 ural disaster from random hurricanes to the civil war in Syria.

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An op-ed at the Los Angeles Times asked If you doubt any of this, you must hate the flow of money to special interests in the readers to see, “the devastation of climate science. business of saving the planet from a manLater the panic switched to predicting ufactured crisis. change in the ruins of Aleppo.” It makes the The California state budget approaches fashionable claim that the war wasn’t an ice age. The various doomsday scenarios caused by Sunni-Shiite hostilities but by, under the umbrella of “climate change” $180 billion. That’s a 5 percent increase in what else, drought. Syria has apparently have kept rotating in and out like bad actors only one year. But being an “international been suffering from leader” in f ighting “climate change” the “worst drought doesn’t come cheap. in nine centuries.” But before long the Green Apocalypse crowd will be Who knew that The new budget grabs detaile d rainfall even more cap-andpredicting a California buried under mountains of ice.” records had been trade power to be spent on a cheap stage. kept in Syria for nearly a thousand years? on Big Green Business and reinforces the A 2003 DOD report envisioned flooding illegal tax for auctioning off “pollution” The civil war in Syria might be explained by the 900 year drought, but what about could producing an inland sea in California. allowances. And then there’s e money for the wars in Yemen, Libya, the Sinai, Mali and Recently the National Research Council the high-speed rail to nowhere. countless other places as part of the Arab report, sponsored in part by California, None of this will stop droughts or storms. Spring? Was there a drought in the eighties warned that San Francisco International But it will move money to the right people. during the last Sunni-Shiite civil war in Syria Airport could be flooded in a few decades. The ones, like Al Gore, living in luxury between Assad Sr. and the Muslim The worst drought in 12 billion years made condos in San Francisco about to be for some better headlines because the flooded by the Great Green Apocalypse Brotherhood? Or during any of the countless wars that drought, unlike most of the other scenarios, that never comes. And it’s always been have been taking place in the area for thou- actually existed. But before long the Green about the money. Everything else is theater. Apocalypse crowd will be predicting a Cal- Rain or sun, flood or drought, the scripts get sands of years? California’s current drought is said to be ifornia buried under mountains of ice. rewritten, the bills get passed and the Natural disasters are the drama that Global Warming show goes on. the worst in 1,200 years. Others insist it’s lubricates a corrupt government industry merely the worst in 500 years. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Who knew that hunter-gatherers which deprives ordinary people of water, Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York without a written language could keep food, heating and life out of a combination writer focusing on radical Islam. of ideological hostility to technology and such careful records? But it’s all about how you define “drought”. The Great Drought of the 1860s was a good deal worse in lack of rain and in the devastating impact on California. There U R A D V E RT I S E R S were drier years far more recently than 1,200 years ago. And there wasn’t a whole make this magazine possible. Please patronize lot of industry in California in the 1860s to them, and mention that you saw their ad in ... 505/243-9515 blame it on. To call this the worst drought in 150 years, never mind 1,200 or 12 billion years, you have to customize the definition of “drought” to make it so. Like so much of Warmunism, you draw the target around the arrow. And once you have your crisis, then you can use alarmism to make a massive power grab. “I think this almost has to be at the level of a crusade,” Governor Brown declared. Now Brown’s crusade is all wet. But Warmunist alarmism recovers quickly every time the world doesn’t end at the stroke of n Top 50 in the Nation in Exceptional Power Stroke growth midnight. In the seventies, environmentaln Huge Parts Department * State Wide Delivery ists were promoting Paul Ehrlich’s claims n 13 Master Diesel Techs on staff The 7.3s! that 65 million Americans would starve to Expert n Ford Motor Co. President’s Award death a decade later. At the British Institute for Biology, he predicted that, “England will 1101 Montano NE (Montano and I-25) not exist in the year 2000”. Today Ehrlich, Albuquerque, NM 87107 the president of the Center for Conserva505.766.6600 tion Biology at Stanford University, is PowerFordNM.com predicting that we’ll soon have to turn to cannibalism.

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Suffering to End Suffering: The Heroic Effort to Eradicate the North American Screwworm

could kill the animal. flies in a huge “fly factory” near Brownsville And the fly was not picky. She laid eggs Texas and later at the southern end of on wounds beyond cattle: in pigs and Mexico. The inactive fly pupae, waiting to sheep and wild deer. The screwworm had change from maggots into adults, were at been a natural parasite on wild animals; up a perfect time to be dosed with radiation to 75 percent of newborn deer died from and dropped from airplanes. This new techthe infections. The herds of cattle raised by nique, new in the 1950s and 1960s, was ranchers merely expanded their population. called “sterile release.” And the fact that the screwworm fly We had spread huge amounts of pestiinfested wild deer meant that ranchers cides to kill insects. But because natural could not control the fly by herding their selection soon selected resistant strains, by Dr. John Richard Schrock domestic animals through “dips.” Infected not one insect species has ever gone extinct Published March 25, 2009 wild animals would always provide a reser- from pesticides. But for the few species that voir of screwworm flies to re-infect the only mate once, the distribution of huge t was a gruesome infection. From pioneer cattle herds. numbers of sterile days until the mid-20th Century, the Then researchinsects for several North American screwworm was a ers discovered a generations drives Then researchers scourge of cattle. Any little cut from thorns, special weakness of the species to local any open wound left from birthing, any eye this fly: unlike most extinction. discovered a special infection that wept, would soon harbor the insects, the screwThe screwworm larvae of the dreaded primary screwworm, worm only mated caused huge losses weakness of this fly: unlike Cochliomyia hominivorax. once. And nuclear of livestock across The adult female fly is attracted only to technology prothe southern United most insects, the screwworm States living flesh, and the eggs she laid hatched vided a way to and south into maggots that burrowed into the sterilize flies with into Central and only mated once. wound. Their feeding and secretions radiation, enough S outh Am eric a . expanded the wound, providing more to make them inferWhen the initial space for more eggs. What was a small tile but not enough to harm their experimental release of sterile flies eradiinnocuous cut soon grew into an extensive reproductive behavior. Entomologists cated the screwworm from the island of infection that caused much suffering and reared immense numbers of screwworm Curacao, the U.S.D.A. launched a campaign to raise the fly, sterilize them, and drop them from airplanes in a slow sweep across the United States from Florida westward. By Become a Corporate Partner constantly bombarding both farm and wilFor an industry to remain dynamic, well-informed leaders must emerge. The New Mexico Agricultural Leadership derness areas with sterile flies, the few program provides leadership development opportunities for professionals in the food, agriculture and natural surviving fertile flies could no longer find resource industries of New Mexico. fertile mates. The program aids participants in the development of leadership skills so they can become stronger and more The key to the process was knowing effective leaders in their industries and communities. This is accomplished by exposing them to direct experiences when there are no more fertile flies laying and interactions with a variety of businesses, social settings and political environments, both domestically and eggs. Only then could they move the batinternationally. tlefront forward. Since this fly only comes to open living wounds, not to dead meat, it The cost of participating in the program is roughly eleven thousand dollars per person, including tuition. Some was necessary to use “sentinel” sheep with organizations and businesses in our State would like to support their employees in advancing their leadership skills open wounds—purposely inflicted cuts— but lack the necessary funds. This is where corporate and individual sponsors play a key role in providing needed in order to detect if there were any wild flies resources for the NM Agricultural Leadership program to provide partial scholarships to selected applicants. left. No other system would work. Another instance where funds are needed for partial scholarships is when individuals, without corporate The screwworm was driven from the sponsorship, approach the program interested in furthering themselves as leaders. They are willing to put the United States and south through Mexico. time, effort, and funds but without a partial scholarship, they will be unable to participate. The domestic and wild animals of North Given the previously explained circumstances, the New Mexico Agricultural Leadership Board of Directors would America and Mexico have now been free like to invite you to consider becoming a corporate sponsor of the program. from this pest for t wo farming generations. AS A SPONSOR YOU WILL ... The amount of money saved annually in • Assist selected applicants with a partial scholarship. the cattle industry by the eradication of the • Build a long-lasting income source for the Program screwworm approaches $400 million annuthrough its endowment. ally. The amount of suffering that has been • Receive public recognition, if wanted, for the prevented, both among domestic animals support provided. and among wild deer and relatives, is also 575.646.6691 Corporate sponsors of the NM Agricultural Leadership will be invited to meet graduating immense. But only the veteran ranchers nmal@nmsu.edu and incoming NMAL members for the year of the contribution and participate in other and wildlife officers remember those grueexclusive program events and initiatives. Contributions are tax deductible. aces.nmsu.edu/nmal some infections.

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Just as we know that we have to suffer to fluoridate the water. Teachers can teach the momentary pain of a vaccination in such abstract facts—just as you can read order to avoid the much greater suffering the historical account above—but abstract of serious infectious diseases, a small discussions and historical pictures do not number of sentinel sheep had to endure rise to the impact of living with widespread surface wounds in order to wipe out the water-borne illness, rampant cavities and screwworm fly. false teeth, or terribly For those who infected cattle and would never deer. The rural folks of Nuclear technology condone this the 1950s and 1960s very limited sufhad the direct experiprovided a way to fering by the ences necessary to sentinel sheep, take action to improve sterilize flies with radiation, they must conthe condition of their front the fact that enough to make them infertile animals and wildlife. inaction would With a new generahave allowed the but not enough to harm their tion where fewer have ongoing and far grown up in contact more massive with the countryside reproductive behavior. suffering of both and with wildlife, it is domestic and wild animals in the future. a reasonable question to ask if today, we Researchers are still trying to formulate a would still act to eradicate the suffering “bait” that will attract the fly and substitute caused by the screwworm? for sentinel sheep, but that would be little As science teachers, it is important for justification for 50 years of inaction. our students to understand that the biggest This also reveals a paradox about science. benefactors of agricultural and biomedical When we make progress in science, we research with animals—are the animals often eliminate the experience base that themselves. gave us the drive to make that progress. When we suffered from contaminated Reference: “Autocidal Control of Screwworms in water, we supported chlorine and ozone North America” by R.H. Richardson, J.R. Ellison, and water treatment. Now, among the new gen- W.W. Averhoff, Science, Vol. 215, 22 January 1982, eration that has always had reliably clean 361–370. John Richard Schrock, Emporia State University, water, some want to end water treatment. Dr. National Animal Interest Alliance Board Our children had dental cavities so we flu- Member oridated the water and dramatically reduced tooth decay. Now many in our new generation without cavities see no reason

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Sheep Research Could Lead to Cure for Huntington’s, Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s

Animal Research Tricky

least in our animal studies, is pretty “Pharmaceutical companies are afraid of dramatic.” The molecule has previously been anything that requires animals to produce a drug,” Holler said. “It’s too complicated, injected directly into brain tissue, but Holler too messy. But the reality is, there is no says he thinks future application will likely other way to produce GM1 ganglioside — if be though something similar to a nasal we could synthesize this in the laboratory, spray. The discovery of the high prevalence of it would have already been done.” They hope to hear the status of their GM1 ganglioside in the affected sheep was submission by March. If it’s a go, clinical the result of studying the condition because trials would be anticipated about three it also occurs in humans. Sheep with GM1 by Tamara Choat for Tri-State Livestock News years down the road. gangliosidosis have concentrations of GM1 group of modern-day sheep owners “We’re cautiously optimistic that they ganglioside at 30 to 40 times higher than and researchers are awaiting news would be willing to consider that these normal animals — an incredible advantage that will also bring hope — particu- sheep will represent a cure for HD,” Holler over the original bovine samples. larly to those suffering from Huntington’s, said. The efficacy of GM1 ganglioside was Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. well-documented in the late ’80s and early Value Added The hope lies in a molecule called GM1 ’90s, and it was one of the most prescribed While GM1 gangliosidosis is not a desirganglioside. The wait is for clinical trials to treatments in Europe for neurological dis- able trait — sheep suf fer from use it on patients. eases. An Italian company partnered with musculoskeletal weakness and usually GM1 is naturally occurring in all U.S. researchers to study GM1 from cattle reach end stage of the disease by 5 months mammals, but is found in high prevalence brains — until the break out of European of age — it is recessive, and herds with the in sheep afflicted with a condition known mad cow disease forced a halt. Holler notes trait are carefully planned and contained. as GM1 gangliosidosis. GM1 from bovine that there is also research published in Because the lambs are harvested earlier and has been shown in clinical trials to slow and Canada that has shown GM1 ganglioside due to the research tissue involved, careven reverse the debilitating neurological delivered directly to the brain can reverse casses are not allowed to enter the food collapse of victims of Huntington’s disease, signs of HD. chain. Producers who agree to select for the referred to by those unfortunate enough to “The results have been nothing short of trait in their herds are paid a subsidy and be familiar with it as simply HD. amazing,” Holler said. “They can take mice the lambs are purchased by Glycoscience “Basic research has shown that if you take that are on their way to dying and make Research Inc. a culture dish of nerve cells and feed them them clinically normal again. The impact, at Right now GR1 has 13 to 14 cooperators GM1 ganglioside, they start growing new that breed for the recessive genetics and axons, which are the cell processes that are currently raising sheep for the research. make nerves function,” said Larry Holler, Holler says that although the science field founder and owner of Glycoscience may think the sheep aspect is a burden, Research Inc. of White, S.D. “We have always “from an animal production standpoint, thought that couldn’t be done — to regrow these animals are worth a lot more for their nerves.” chemical production than their lamb and For the past 20 years, Holler and his wife wool. We believe it’s a tremendous opporand business partner, Sue, have been tunity for value-added sheep production in working to bring GM1 into clinical trials to the U.S.,” he says. treat these neurological diseases. The proFor the Hollers, and those living with HD, cedure has been long, with the rigorous the road to the cure can’t come fast enough. regulatory nature of the pharmaceutical The fact that it can come through someindustry all but halting progress at times. thing as organic and earth-derived as a In January, Holler and his team of collablamb is more than coincidence. orators — which includes Steven Hersch, a “It’s been a phenomenal journey,” Holler clinician and researcher at Harvard/Massasaid. “If I look back, I can see God’s footchusetts General Hospital (Holler himself prints throughout every step of this process. holds DVM and PhD degrees) — will submit “It’s definitely not been an easy road. a grant proposal to the National Institutes Probably not a day or a week goes by that of Health that would fund safety and proof my wife and I don’t look at each other and of concept studies necessary to lead to a wonder if we can keep on. But we think clinical trial. This is the second time the corabout the people and the friends we have poration has submitted a grant to the NIH; met with HD — it’s such an unrelenting the first was rejected. disease; it just destroys these people — and Holler says years of trying to get an we know we have to keep going.” industry focused on synthetic laboratory production of molecules to accept a product that comes from an animal source has been a struggle.

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’m sure you’ve read about the VFD. It’s kinda like BVD, bovine viral diarrhea, only VFD is a disease of the bureaucracy. In my opinion, it’s just another in a long line of regulations to fix something that wasn’t broke. VFD stands for Veterinary Feed Directive and it’s an attempt to turn your vet into a paper pushing pharmacist. To learn about VFD you’ve been urged to develop a closer relationship with your vet. Hah! Every large animal vet I know is so busy meeting himself coming and going that he or she doesn’t have time for writing prescriptions, or for strengthening personal relationships. Most large animal vets I know aren’t what you’d call “touchy feely” kind of people anyway. Some are downright grouchy, probably because they’re already 45 minutes late for their next appointment. But ranchers and their animals should be

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Mark Enochs McCollum, 58, Ft. Sumner, passed away on January 2, 2017 at home at the ranch. Mark was born in Clifton, Texas on July 1, 1958 to the home of Foris Theodore and LeNell (Enochs) McCollum. His time as a Texas resident was short lived as his father moved the family to the family ranch just a short two weeks after Mark’s birth. The ranch just southwest of Ft. Sumner would serve as the classroom Mark loved best. This is where his intense love of God’s creation and desire to be in the beef industry began. Mark along with his brother, Ted, started a dry lot sheep feeding operation while in junior high and high school, which would foreshadow a later move into the beef feeding industry. Mark graduated from Fort Sumner High School in 1976. Upon graduation, he planned to stay at the ranch, his father insisted he seek training in an additional field he could fall back on if the beef business didn’t work out. Mark attended automotive mechanics school at Texas State Technical Institute with the thought that he could always use this knowledge to work on ranch equipment when he got back to what he really enjoyed, ranching. After automotive mechanic school he returned to the family ranch and began building his cow herd and leasing local grass. A local rancher suggested he attend the Texas Christian University Ranch Management program. To this day he credits the time spent at TCU as the second best time he ever invested. Mark and his brother Ted bought McCollum Cattle

Company from their father. At the time McCollum Cattle was a cow/calf operation. In addition to managing the McCollum Ranch south of Fort Sumner, the company branched out into the feeder cattle business, pasturing yearlings in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Nebraska. Shortly thereafter the company purchased a preconditioning feed yard near Clovis. Recently they joined several other cattlemen and bought Frontera Feed Yard, formerly West Tex Feedyard, in Muleshoe, Texas. Mark was always committed to furthering the beef industry and promoting agricultural careers to future generations. This belief drove Mark to be very involved in many youth ag activities. Mark served as board chairman for Ag New Mexico Farm Credit board of directors; he served on the De Baca county Farm Bureau board of directors, was a member of the De Baca Soil & Water Conservation district and most recently appointed to the New Mexico Beef Council. The biggest source of joy and accomplishment for Mark lies with his family, his wife Kim McCollum of the family ranch south of Fort Sumner, their children: son Ryan McCollum and wife Kelsey, their children Lacey and Colby, Fort Sumner, and their daughter Megan Broyles with husband Brennan and their children, Branson and Bosten, Hamilton, Texas. Mark is also survived by a brother Ted McCollum of Amarillo, Texas, sister Marta Gilbert and her husband Danny, Geromino, Texas, his in-laws G.A. and Naomi Gunn, Fort Sumner, brother in law

Clifford and Beverly Gunn, Fort Sumner, and sister in law Brenda Nolan, Rapid City, SD, along with several nieces, nephews, other relatives and many good friends and neighbors. Roy Sauble, 65, Maxwell, passed away on Monday October 31, 2016 in Raton. He was born on July 23, 1951, the son of Frank Eugene and Rebecca Gaines-Sauble. Roy ranched in the Maxwell area for many years. He was happiest on a horse, aside from family times, his best times were spent in the saddle with Leroy Webb, John Latham, Bill John Woolley and Harvey Villarreal. He never passed up a chance to tell a story about the times they shared. Roy is survived by his wife, Martha; children Carla and DJ Enderle, Monte Vista, Colorado; Cathy and Dustin Allmand, Circle Dot Ranch, Maxwell, Patrick Sauble and fiancé Elle Girouard, Colorado Springs; sister Galey Sauble, Maxwell; brother Bill Sauble and wife Debbie; and six grandchildren. Editor’s Note: Email caren@aaalivestock.com. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cattlegrowers’ Foundation, a 501(c)3, tax deductable charitable foundation serving the rights of ranch families and educating citizens on governmental actions, policies and practices. Cattlegrowers Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194. The New Mexico Stockman runs memorials as a courtesy to its readers. If families & friends would like to see more detail, verbatim pieces must be emailed to us, & may be printed at 10¢ per word.

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First Texas Case of CWD Found in Free-Ranging White-Tailed Deer Source: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

hronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected in a hunter harvested 1 1/2 –year-old white-tailed buck submitted for sampling within Surveillance Zone 3 in Medina County, Texas. This marks the first confirmed case of CWD in a free-ranging Texas whitetail. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) are taking steps to deploy an early detection and containment strategy designed to limit the spread of CWD from the affected area and better understand the distribution and prevalence of the disease. “Although the disease has been discovered in a free ranging whitetail in this area, we cannot draw any conclusions at this time based on one detection,” said Dr. Bob Dittmar, TPWD’s wildlife veterinarian. “The proactive measures we are taking as part of our epidemiological investigation into this case are in line with the state’s strategies to prevent this disease from spreading any further. The more effective we are at containing this disease within a limited geographic area, the better it will be for our wildlife resources and all those who enjoy them.” Effective immediately under an executive order issued by TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith, Surveillance Zone 3 (SZ3), which extends across portions of Bandera, Medina and Uvalde counties, is now a CWD Containment Zone and all asso-

ciated rules for that designation are in effect. Those rules include restrictions on the movements of carcass parts as well as live deer possessed under the authority of a permit. The department is also implementing mandatory CWD testing of hunter harvested deer within this containment zone. “This emergency action allows us to contain the threat of this disease spreading any further while we collect more information and gather more data,” said T. Dan Friedkin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission chairman. “Not only are these temporary emergency measures necessary and consistent with the state’s planned strategies for CWD management, they are essential for ensuring the protection of the state’s whitetail deer herd and the integrity of our hunting heritage. “It is my intent for the commission to address this issue through our regular rulemaking process, which provides opportunities for public comment and input from stakeholders, and that process will begin soon,” Friedkin added. “With the confirmation of CWD in a free-ranging buck in Medina County, the TAHC is working with TPWD to determine

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the disease risk in the area,” said Dr. Susan Rollo, TAHC state epidemiologist. “TAHC understands and appreciates TPWD’s immediate response and temporary measures to prevent the inadvertent spread of CWD to other parts of Texas.” This most recent detection of CWD resulted from enhanced voluntary testing of hunter harvested deer in SZ3. TPWD’s sampling goal for SZ3 for the 2016-17 hunting season is 1,749 samples. As of today, the department has received about 720 samples from hunter harvests and roadkills within the zone and anticipates receiving about 200 additional samples from deer breeding facilities and associated release sites in SZ3. “TPWD is very appreciative of the effort and cooperation that has been put forth by landowners, hunters and local officials in the area,” said Carter Smith, TPWD executive director. “Our ability to control this disease is directly related to the cooperation offered by the citizens of Medina, Bandera and Uvalde counties, and we pledge to continue to work with everyone to minimize the impacts of this disease as well as these challenging but necessary measures designed to control the spread of CWD.” While the general deer hunting season is over, TPWD will continue to collect samples from MLDP (Managed Lands Deer Program) properties in the new Containment Zone, as well as roadkills. The department is seeking as many additional samples for testing as it can obtain in order to get a better handle on the geographic extent and prevalence of the disease in this area. Additional information about CWD can be found online at https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/ diseases/cwd/

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Singleton Ranches . . . . . . 103 Skaarer Brangus . . . . . . . . . 73 Stockmen’s Realty . . . . . . . 90 Southwest Red Angus Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Joe Stubblefield & Assoc . . . 93 Sutphin Cattle Co. . . . . . . 109 Swihart Sales Co. . . . . . . . 103 Texas Longhorn Breeders of New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . 49 Texas Range Minerals . . . . . 64 Texoma Beefmaster Bull Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Thompson Ranch . . . . 23, 101 3C Cattle Feeders . . . . . . . . 81 Three Mile Hill Ranch . . . . . 97 Candy Ray Trujillo’s Black Angus . . . . . . . . . . 38 Tucumcari Bull Test . . . . . . . 29 2 Bar Angus . . . . . . . . . 76, 99 U Bar Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Union County Cooperative Extension Service . . . . . . 65 United Fiberglass, Inc. . . . . . 39 USA Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Virden Perma Bilt Co. . . . . 103

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SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017 · SANFORD, COLORADO · AT THE RANCH · 1pm Featuring...

SONS OF LEADING AI SIRES Including: • LIMOUSIN SIRES DHVO Deuce DLVL Xerox AHCC Westwind MAGS Y-Axis COLE Zone MAGS Zamindar TMCK Architect TMCK Montgomery

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Limousin, Lim-Flex & Simmental X Bulls found anywhere!

RODZ About Time 126A. A red homozygous polled 75% Lim-flex son of DLVL Xerox bull we raised. Semen is available on request. For more information contact us or Grassroots Genetics. Many like him sell in this year’s offering. His calves come easy and have plenty of growth. He’s the best heifer bull we have ever had. Many of his sons sell.

2004 Seedstock Producers of the Year!

SELLING

90 BULLS TwoYear-Olds

Yearlings

RANCH:

719/274-5827 RIC REYNOLDS:

719/274-5084 c: 719/588-0394 A high selling bull from last year’s sale, many brothers sell including his maternal brother.

SALE MANAGER:

40 ANGUS X LIMOUSIN BULLS +YEARS of AI. Our Limousin have a Brown Swiss background that results in greater maternal ability, growth and good dispositions. Our mother cows are selected for their ability to work at high altitude and to wean a growthy calf under range conditions.

Jim Higel, 719/589-2116 AUCTIONEER:

Art Goehl, 719/589-2113 RANCH LOCATION: Go to La Jara (14 miles north of Antonito or 14 miles south of Alamosa). From La Jara, go east on Hwy. 136 to deadend, then turn right and go 3 /4 mile to Reynolds Ranch headquarters.

Lunch will be served at the Ranch. Sale Catalogs available on request. Airport only 14 miles from Ranch.

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719/274-4090 c: 719/588-1230

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and many other leading sires!

Registered Performance Tested, High Altitude, PAP Tested Bulls

• ANGUS SIRES Connealys American Classic Conneallys Consensus

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GAYLAND & PATTI TOWNSEND HOME: 580/443-5777 CELL: 580/380-1606

We are g consignin to the

P.O. BOX 278 MILBURN, OK 73450

STEVE & TYLER TOWNSEND CELL: 580/380-1968

Roswell Brangus Sale February 25, 2017 Three Generations of Brangus Breeders

LOT 60 TYLERS REG BRANGUS

LOT 54 ANGUS PLUS

LOT 46 REG. BRANGUS

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LOT 59 PUREBRED BRANGUS

20+ Bulls Brangus & Angus+ 20 Bred Heifers

RAISED IN OKLAHOMA – THE SAME WAY WE RAISED THEM IN NEW MEXICO! CONTACT ROSWELL BRANGUS BREEDERS COOP FOR BRANGUS BULLS & FEMALES

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Lack-Morrison Brangus JOE PAUL & ROSIE LACK P.O. Box 274, Hatch, NM 87937 Phone: 575/267-1016 • Fax: 575/267-1234 Racheal Carpenter 575-644-1311 BILL MORRISON 411 CR 10, Clovis, NM 88101 Phone: 575/760-7263 Email: bvmorrison@yucca.net lackmorrisonbrangus.com

Parker Brangus LARRY & ELAINE PARKER P.O. Box 146, 1700 N. Parker Road San Simon, AZ 85632 Larry’s Cell: 520/508-3505 Diane’s Cell: 520/403-1967 Business – 520/845-2411 Residence – 520/845-2315 Email: jddiane@vtc.net or parker_brangus@yahoo.com

Townsend Brangus GAYLAND and PATTI TOWNSEND P.O. Box 278 Milburn, Oklahoma 73450 Home: 580/443-5777 Cell: 580/380-1606 STEVEN & TYLER TOWNSEND 580-380-1968. FEBRUARY 2017

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